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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A new start and still making a difference</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield Bogor, Indonesia   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>844 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FRONTIERS OF HOPE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim Dai has met Oscar-winning filmmakers and Indonesian politicians. He was a panellist on the SBS show Insight and has been offered a scholarship to study fine arts at <span class="companylink">Monash University</span> in Melbourne.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his success is bittersweet. Although the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> has awarded him <b>refugee</b> status, he has been waiting for more than two years for a country to offer him a home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Journalists often visit the mountainous town of Cisarua where Khadim lives, a hub for thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers stuck in transit in Indonesia. But Khadim became a citizen journalist because he didn't recognise himself in their reporting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was waiting for someone to come to film me and my friends," he says. "But the media were only showing a poor face, a desperate face. I was feeling a kind of shame because we have very extraordinary people in our community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I had to do something to raise my voice and my room-mates' voices. How can we share these stories? Australians should know why we are escaping, why I am living so far from my parents. They should know."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so Khadim, now 19, used his smartphone to capture his and his fellow refugees' reality. In a stripey orange house on the side of a hill, Khadim and his three flatmates bake naan bread and make fruit smoothies. They play the dambora, an Afghan instrument, recreated out of old motorcycle helmets. And they watch Hazara <b>refugee</b> football league games, held most days at 3pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Nobody knows where they will end up," Khadim observes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the video footage is touching precisely because it is so unsentimental. "I tried to show how important it is to share things among refugees and how important tiny bits of happiness are in their lives."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim was born in 1996 in Afghanistan's Ghazni province. It was the year the Sunni Islamists of the Taliban took over Kabul, marking the beginning of another wave of repression against the Hazara, a mainly Shiite ethnic minority persecuted for centuries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim's family fled to Quetta in Pakistan. He became a national karate champion in Pakistan, but nonetheless found life there "like living in a prison".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On February 16, 2013, a bomb exploded at a market on the outskirts of Quetta, near Khadim's school. It was the second major attack on Hazaras in a month. "I lost my friends ... my classmate. That's when I decided to leave."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim hoped to join his sister and brother, who were already living in Australia. He stitched the phone number of a friend living in Cisarua into his underpants and paid people smugglers $US7000 to get him to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his first two months in Indonesia, Khadim made four attempts to reach Australia on a <b>boat</b>. The date of the fourth - and final - attempt is seared in his memory: July 19, 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was in the back of an ice-cream truck, en route to a beach. His sister phoned him from Australia: she was watching the prime minister on television. "She said: 'Don't come, because they just changed the policy right now and if you arrive here safely, they will send you to an isolated island."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He dropped out of the back of the ice-cream van and began a new life in Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was introduced to Australian filmmaker Jolyon Hoff. The two started a documentary project, Who are we anyway? Khadim's videos, posted on social media, have been shared thousands of times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Heart of Our Community features <b>refugee</b> women experimenting with new ways of living in a less conservative country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>Refugee</b> Learning Centre tells of the Cisarua community's efforts to educate <b>refugee</b> children not permitted to attend school in Indonesia, in a facility that Khadim Dai co-founded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Establishing the centre was fraught because people smugglers had spread "propaganda" that teaching and learning were forbidden.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They were trying to ruin the life of refugees and take advantage of that," Khadim says. "We tried to share the message [that] we have to do something to give kids an education. They are our future and they are innocent."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cramped learning centre now has more than 100 students. Its walls are covered with an unsettling mixture of the familiar and the haunting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are photos of David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo next to a dove speckled with blood and slain Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim is frowning. An Australian donated $8000 for rent this year but he is worried about next year. "I have a concern about losing this place because the parents can't afford to pay at all."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year, Khadim's film, Life as a Hazara <b>Refugee</b>, won an Honourable Mention in the international PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It should have been a thrilling moment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was not very excited," Khadim says. "I will be excited when I get to a peaceful place where I can continue my education."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The chaos of displacement hits new low</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul McGeough  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>723 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>refugee</b> problem isn't simply 'over there'. It also lives in our governments and our hearts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pope Francis makes a plea on behalf of our "brothers and sisters ... seeking a home where they can live without fear". But the privileged world - and shamefully Australia has become a leader in the field - now treats those fleeing the chaos of war as suspected criminals and terrorists.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The squalid conditions in which Australia detains undocumented arrivals at Manus Island and Nauru, with their hideous tales of violence and predatory sex, have become the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo of the southern hemisphere. And when it didn't seem possible, Canberra recently sank to a new low - paying people smugglers to double-cross their hapless clients by turning around at sea, away from Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no easy solution. Hopes that smashing the smugglers' boats will turn back the miserable tide misses the enormity of the crisis of failed and failing states in the Middle East - some of the responsibility for which sits with the West - which force people to flee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A report in June by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that at the end of 2014, an unprecedented 59.5 million people were on the run from war and persecution - half were children; if seen as a population, they would be the 24th largest country in the world, between Italy and South Africa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We've been here before. Kathleen Newland, co-founder of the Washington-based <span class="companylink">Migration Policy Institute</span>, recalls a blueprint from the past that proved more effective than any of today's "fortress" policies. It was a decade of unprecedented global co-operation, even among adversaries, that lead to international conferences and agreements to manage the Vietnamese "<b>boat</b> people" crisis of the late 1970s, when as many as half of the refugees were dying at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was tough going. But regional governments agreed not to block the boats if other governments would agreed to resettle the people; commercial ships were guaranteed a fast turnaround in dropping those they rescued in safe ports; there was an anti-piracy program to protect people in flight; and Vietnam agreed to an orderly departure program, under which hundreds of thousands left safely - and it agreed to take back those found not to be refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN</span> has been attempting to gain traction on this issue for several years - but until refugees were camping in the streets of Rome, the problem remained "over there".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a grotesque, altered reality for these travellers. Not for them the retail luxury of airport malls and hotels that are the travel hubs of the privileged world. Instead, they tramp over borders on foot and bounce around closer to terra firma, in buses and trains, an eye over their shoulder at all times. And for those emerging through Africa, there's the white-knuckle ride through Libya - where Britain and France intervened, with much fanfare and self-congratulation, to help topple a dictator before disappearing as the country descended into chaos.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detested as they are, the people smugglers are performing a task that seemingly defies national and foreign governments. The Geneva-based Khalid Koser, who also heads a <span class="companylink">World Bank</span> working group on migration and security, makes the point that the smugglers actually do get people out of harm's way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia happily sends soldiers to foreign countries to kill people; but during the 2014 Ebola crisis in Africa, it refused to send its own health workers to save people. The Europeans will protect commercial cargoes from pirates off Somalia, but they quibble about rescuing human beings in the Mediterranean. Instead of protecting the Rohingyas in their homes and villages, the Burmese authorities lock them up in detention camps - obviously wishing them to flee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Italian <b>refugee</b> rescue program that cost $US10 million a month gets the axe, but the Iraq War, at maybe $US10 billion a month, was allowed to run and run. And when US President Barack Obama asked for $US1 billion to address the problems causing people to flee their homes in Latin America, the response was a one-fingered gesture from a Republican-dominated Congressional appropriations committee - just $US300 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We seem to have lost our humanity.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Desperate migrants</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By NICK MILLER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>696 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Island of Kos Europe's new entranceway for refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">KOS: Riot police were again deployed on Kos on Thursday, as the small Greek island continues to struggle with an unexpected surge in migrants from Syria, the Middle East and beyond.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 1000 Syrian refugees were locked in a sport stadium overnight, after police tried to clear them from the parks and beach promenades of Kos Town where they had set up tents and were sleeping on cardboard or the lifejackets they had worn on their sea journey from Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of those inside jumped over the stadium's walls in the evening, unwilling to sleep on the stadium's bare, exposed concrete bleachers. Some chose to sleep in the yards and porches of nearby houses, angering the locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Thursday, a crush developed outside the stadium, as hundreds of Syrians tried to enter to register as refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police in riot gear, who arrived mid-week from Athens to reinforce the overwhelmed locals, used their shields to move the crowd away from the sun-exposed gates, shouting: "Back, back! If you push us we will push back!"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They attempted to impose a "women and children first" rule for registration, as the temperature climbed into the mid-30s and several women became faint. At least two collapsed in the heat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arguments developed in the crowd, and the system threatened to break down as angry migrants tried to push into the stadium. Some said they had waited up to a week or more, sleeping rough, trying to get the papers they need to continue to the main <b>refugee</b> centres in Athens and Thessaloniki.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This modest island is Europe's new frontline in a fresh surge of migrants fleeing their homelands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Normally Kos is quietly comfortable in its role as the third-best rated Aegean island, a destination for Europeans on package tours in huge resorts, cheap romantic jaunts to renew wedding vows, or young Germans seeking the sun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now the island greets 300 to 500 new migrants every day, an aid worker estimates. <span class="companylink">Doctors Without Borders</span> said there are 7000 migrants on the island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They must be registered and processed before they can move on and the island currently cannot cope. (Although the mayor said "it's under control and in the next few days it will be more under control".)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Story after story is washing up on the beautiful beaches of Kos.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Baby Malia is eight days old. Her mother fled the ruins of Syria's Kobane, and now the infant squints out of a cot in 33-degree heat outside Kos' <b>refugee</b> processing centre, in a crush of 200 fellow refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We want a better life," the mother said, on her and Malia's behalf.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Mohammad Irfan" (I suspect it's not his real name) steps from the deflating corpse of a dinghy he and six friends paddled for five hours across the narrow strait between Turkey and Kos, battling the tide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They come originally from Pakistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I will work in a barber shop!" he proudly tells me, his sneakers leaking seawater. "Good, good barber!"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"FS" left Damascus to escape the war. The first time he tried to cross to Greece from Turkey his <b>boat</b> sank underneath him. On Monday it was second time lucky.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was very happy to arrive," he says. "First thing, we took a selfie."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Fred", who left Afghanistan after being threatened by the Taliban, shows me around his home for the last three weeks: an abandoned resort on the fringes of Kos Town, where 1000 refugees wait for their papers without electricity, boiling pots of water over wood fires at the bottom of the dustbowl hotel pool.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are hungry a lot of the time," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We live in the Stone Age. I am educated. I have an MA in cinema. I want to go to Germany, or Denmark."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Right now Kos has thousands of stories like those of baby Malia, "Mohammad Irfan", "FS" or "Fred".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Each Kos day begins with dots on the sea evolving into boats. Refugees struggle ashore, embrace and walk or even catch the bus into town.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>agenda refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Helen Shield   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>593 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>89</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘R efugee advocates sometimes claim that today’s hostility towards refugees — both by the Government and many in the community — is unprecedented. It is not.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So contends award-winning author and historian Klaus Neumann in his book Across the Seas, which examines Australian Government policy and public attitudes to refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers since Federation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Neumann argues that Australia’s debate about refugees, <b>asylum</b> seekers and economic migrants is emotive, parochial and lacks historical context.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are only focused on what is happening today and what’s happening to us,” he told a public lecture at the <span class="companylink">University of WA</span> on Wednesday night. His criticism was directed at the Government and <b>refugee</b> advocates, who he said were unlikely to change entrenched public opinion with calls for compassion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Neumann stressed there were no short-term solutions for the estimated 60 million displaced people around the globe but he pointed out that given Australia’s 13,750 humanitarian intake accounted for 0.02 per cent of the global population of refugees, concerns about a few thousand <b>boat</b> arrivals had been blown out of proportion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Let’s keep things in perspective,” he said. “History allows us to see things in a new light.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s 13,750 <b>refugee</b> intake equated to one <b>refugee</b> for every 1730 Australian residents, far fewer than in the 1980s when the country was far less prosperous. In 1949, in the aftermath of World War II, Australia resettled more than 75,000 displaced Europeans or one for every 93 Australian residents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the early 1990s, Professor Neumann said, Germany accepted 450,000 claims a year for <b>asylum</b> from those fleeing the former Yugoslavia prompting a hostile, racist public backlash including violent demonstrations. He attributed an overall acceptance by the German public of an anticipated 500,000 claims for <b>asylum</b> this year not to a sudden rush of empathy about the plight of refugees but to a zero tolerance approach to racism and a crackdown on racially motivated attacks from the mid-90s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He dismissed suggestions that European leaders, dealing with a <b>refugee</b> crisis of epic proportions involving hundreds of thousands of displaced people, were taking notice of Australia’s anti-boats and long-term detention campaigns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe, he said, led by Germany and France, was moving to a quota system, under which all countries would play their part in hosting hundreds of thousands of displaced people from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Eritrea and Albania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia could take a leadership role, particularly in our region, in addressing the causes of displacement — unequal distribution of security and opportunity — and also devise a mechanism for fairly distributing the number of displaced people between countries in our region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m not a <b>refugee</b> advocate,” Professor Neumann said. “But I do despair at Australia’s policy response to <b>boat</b> people. What is happening on Manus and Nauru is cruel. Their suffering is the outcome of public policy.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He warned against conducting an emotional debate about refugees, saying that it was important Australia considered its policy and actions in a global context.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia had the capacity to offer creative temporary and permanent settlement solutions and a responsibility within its region and as a member of the international community to take a leadership role.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most importantly, he said, Australia should take into account the precarious circumstances of the men, women and children seeking Australian protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Klaus Neumann is a historian at Swinburne University’s Institute for Social Research. His book, Across the Seas, is published by Black Inc, RRP $34.99.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>'It is not human being life ... it is dog life'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>875 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A young man chasing the dream for a new life is stuck fighting for survival in a Calais <b>refugee</b> camp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I find Daniel in the Eritrean district of The Jungle, a messy shanty town of tents up the road from a beach where families promenade with ice creams and people in bikinis and board shorts play volleyball.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They play volleyball in The Jungle too. It's not the same. Daniel is 25 and there's an uncommon lack of suspicion in his face. He invites me to crouch in his tent. It must be 45 degrees in here - 50, even. I'm sweating for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tent is overflowing with foraged shoes, old clothes, a few cans of food. Two women sit up the back, doing something inscrutable and deliberate with old plastic bags.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is not human being life," Daniel says. "It is dog life or wild animal life. You see?"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 3000 migrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan and Eritrea live in this trash-strewn sore on Europe's brow that has somehow developed on a sand dune on the outskirts of Calais.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just south of here is the Field of the Cloth of Gold, where in June of 1520 the kings of England and France parlayed amid extravagant marquees of timber and canvas. They jousted beneath the green trees and tried to out-gift each other with gold-plated monkeys and red wine fountains. Half a millennium ago, civilisation did that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In The Jungle, in 2015, you chase the charity workers to get a ticket then queue to get a bag of basic groceries, and you go back to your flimsy burrow and hope that tonight there won't be a brawl in the dark or some angry, confused man won't set fire to your tent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like most people here, Daniel doesn't want to be photographed, let alone filmed. He says it's because of shame at his surroundings. From his evasive answers and injured foot, I guess it's also because he's been trying to stow away in the lorries that rumble to the Calais ferry terminal and beyond to England.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why to England? "I am not knowledgeable about European country. But I want to learn. In everywhere. And I want to live special life in everywhere. I am no need of every bad action. But I want to learn, I want to develop my knowledge and by so much things. My hope is that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"But I know every Europeans, Australia, like Canada is a democratic country and you have a chance for learning."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Usually, journalists smooth out quotes. I smoothed that out a bit. But you have to hear the earnestness in Daniel's speech.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is literally the only thing he owns: hope. He has nothing from Eritrea, which he left in 2002. In May that year the government closed all Protestant churches that were not registered with the state. Since then, religious persecution has worsened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His family landed in Shagarab, a huge camp in the east of Sudan. They graduated to the ghettos of Khartoum. For 11 years, Daniel lived there. Around them prowled people smugglers selling dreams of a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Libya, good, says so many people," Daniel says. Finally, around 2013, he bought it. He won't say how much he paid. He spent two months in Libya: "Tripoli is very bad, there is so much people died by night, you know ... Eritreans, Ethiopians, died at that time by ISIS problem."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He crossed the Mediterranean in a tiny plastic <b>boat</b> crammed with 115 people for three days. He saw nothing but the sea and the people around him. He put his head down, by his knees, "afraid of so much". He won't tell me in any more detail what it was like to be rescued. He has some pride. "It is difficult for me ... The <b>boat</b> is not good. But it was the hands of God."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He came to Italy. He jumped a train to France. Now he is here. Hungry, fed once a day. It is hot, it is cold. There are not enough clothes. There is not enough anything.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Outside a truck arrives to install "street" lights. Up the track, a charity is installing showers. There are 26 Portaloos for 3000 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is the first time in our history we are working on French territory," says Thierry Benlahsen, head of operations for Solidarite International. "We quickly realised the humanitarian situation here is similar if not worse [than] some camps in Jordan or the Sudan."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Near the Eritrea district, in the Pakistani section, one of the migrants has set up a lean-to shop stocked with cans and fruit. Another group has built a mosque from tarpaulins and foraged wood. There is so much creativity and life-force to admire - fences, verandahs, shaving in a mirror fragment, stealing bicycles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I shake more hands than I have in weeks. It is simpler than trying to apologise or grimace or back away or ignore or pretend or excuse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the way back to London, my Eurostar is delayed by 90 minutes. I'm furious.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government’s reset needs discipline and belief</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Thursday this newspaper castigated Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey for not firing up the electorate about their economic program and bemoaned Labor’s forlorn mission on income redistribution. Two days later we urged the Prime Minister to show leadership on the economic agenda and to end the policy paralysis that had engulfed the political class. We advocated a strategic reset to engage voters on a quest for jobs, productivity and growth. Then, on Tuesday, at considerable length and as we have argued since late 2013, we laid out the case for why Mr Abbott and the Treasurer had to embolden their narrative, with budget repair, rapid growth and policy innovation at the centre of their agenda. Yesterday, after China’s shock devaluation of the yuan, we highlighted the need to protect our living standards through fiscal consolidation and economic flexibility.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As far as The Australian is concerned staying on message is not complicated. Amid the noise of traditional and social media, pop culture distractions and a febrile political climate, such constancy requires wit, energy and belief. Those three basics, however, are in short supply in our crisis-prone politics as shown by the same-sex marriage issue, this week’s political obsession. A new parliamentary session was an opportunity for Mr Abbott to initiate a political reset. Again, inept execution, a lack of discipline and clunky messaging botched the task. In a week when Mr Hockey should have used China’s currency ploy and the weakness of its economy to drive home our own challenges, he prefers to talk about gay marriage instead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott, too, has wasted a chance to wedge Labor on climate policy, after this week announcing the modest emissions reduction target — a 26 per cent reduction on 2005 levels by 2030 — Australia will be taking to the Paris climate summit in late November. Bill Shorten has taken a huge risk with his 50 per cent aspirational renewable energy target by 2030, not least because it is not costed, properly modelled or thought through. Labor is again poised to fight an election on an issue it knows will lead to regressive hikes in consumer energy costs, job losses in its heartland and doubts about whether renewables can sustain the nation’s baseload power needs (in 2015 they can’t). Again the Abbott government has lost momentum and ceded the ground to vogue topics the Opposition Leader is comfortable with. Mr Shorten must have to pinch himself some mornings, such are the gifts the Coalition keeps giving him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not only is Labor weakened by its RET dreams and <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy (despite its about-face on <b>boat</b> turnbacks), it is most vulnerable on economic issues. The Rudd-Gillard government broke the budget and built in unsustainable social spending. At last month’s national conference, Labor trashed the free trade agreement with China and allowed its union cronies to fan nasty xenophobic sentiments on jobs. A government that was properly advised, adult, serious, disciplined and focused would pummel Mr Shorten on the budget, employment, taxation, trade, workplace flexibility and its clean-energy mirage. Beyond the negatives of assailing Labor, the Coalition also could build its narrative around its traditional superiority on the economy, lower taxes, enterprise and national security. Yet Mr Abbott trails in the polls and most of the commentariat have written him off. The latest Newspoll has Labor in front 54-46 on a two-party-preferred basis.The next election is eminently winnable for the Coalition. Mercifully for the government, the Bronwyn Bishop chopper episode of self-immolation is behind it. But key players such as Mr Abbott, Mr Hockey and Malcolm Turnbull, to name only serial offenders, must cease wandering off the reservation every terrible Tuesday or wobbly Wednesday. To win convincingly requires a discipline that has not been observed during the Coalition’s time in office. It also will need a clarity of purpose that, to date, it has struggled to articulate. Here’s one simple strategy for the Abbott government. Think for a moment: “What would Mr Shorten prefer to talk to voters about?” Then steer clear of Labor’s boutique concerns. Mr Abbott should speak plainly about a plan for national revival through enhanced productivity, innovation and opportunity for all. As we have said numerous times — so many, in fact, we could be called obsessives — the surest path to political victory is by superior policy on the main game of economic prosperity and reform.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Hook, David Fitzsimon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>347 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>82</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TV Who Do You Think You Are SBS One Tuesday, 7.30pm WE know Luke Nguyen as a hugely successful chef and TV identity. But the man himself is as fascinating as his work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nguyen’s family were refugees from Vietnam in the late-1970s, following the communist victory in 1975. His father and his mate made a <b>boat</b> with a secret compartment for their families and took off in broad daylight, pretending to be fishermen. Nguyen was born in a <b>refugee</b> camp. But once they arrived in Australia, their lives did not get any easier, and Nguyen is estranged from his father, who was a harsh disciplinarian.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This fascinating instalment of Who Do You Think You Are? offers as much an insight into the broader sweep of 20th-century East Asian history as it does into Nguyen’s own family story. The episode begins with Nguyen’s mum visiting her son’s restaurant, then heads off to China in search of Nguyen’s maternal grandfather’s family and then on to far-flung provinces of Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chris Hook</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TV Message From Mungo NITV Tuesday, 8pm THE discovery of human remains dating back up to 40,000 years in the NSW outback in 1968 has been one of the major archaeological finds not only in Australia but worldwide. This award-winning documentary tells the story of the discovery of the most important remains at the ancient lake bed of Lake Mungo, that of a woman who has become known as “Mungo Lady”. Told through the eyes of both scientists and indigenous people it is a clash of cultures. As archaeologists around the world heralded the find with acclaim, Aboriginal people sought the return of the remains — something finally achieved in 1992. The efforts of Aboriginal women Alice Kelly, Tibby Briar and Alice Bugmy led to greater understanding and co-operation from both sides. It took eight years to make the documentary — a simple form of recording oral history illustrated with images of the stunning southwestern NSW desert.David Fitzsimon</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Violence erupts at migrant relocation</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>461 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ATHENS: Greek police used fire extinguishers and batons as fights broke out on Tuesday on the island of Kos, where overwhelmed authorities are struggling to contain migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hundreds of protesting migrants demanding quick registration blocked the main coastal road in the island's main town.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We want papers, we want to eat!" they chanted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Authorities, locals and charity groups struggled to provide registration, food and shelter to the new arrivals, many of whom are children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of those on Kos, a popular tourist destination, had been camping in the main town's parks and squares.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An attempt to have them relocated to a stadium for registration degenerated, with fights breaking out among some of the 1500 people gathered in a long, crowded queue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police, who had a force of just a handful of officers to maintain control, tried to impose order by spraying the migrants with fire extinguishers and using batons. Hundreds fled in panic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This situation on the island is out of control," Kos mayor Yorgos Kyritsis told Greek TV.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is a real danger of uncontrollable situations. Blood will be shed."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similar protests have been staged on several of the islands bearing the brunt of the migrant influx in recent weeks, including Lesbos, where most new arrivals land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span> called conditions for migrants on the Greek islands "shameful".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, the Turkish coastguard rescued 330 Syrians adrift in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday after failing to reach Greece. They included dozens of children, at least five of them newborn, and women, some of whom were pregnant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are told Europe will welcome us, but the door is closed in our face," said a 23-year-old man from Damascus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We will try again every day to reach Greece."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Several of the refugees said their <b>boat</b> had been stopped by armed Greek coastguard officers who ordered them to dump fuel, stranding them at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for the Greek coastguard, Nikolaos Lagadianos, "categorically denied" the allegations, saying an incident had taken place off the Turkish town of Bodrum, further south, but Greek authorities had not been involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crisis-hit Greece has seen a dramatic rise in people seeking refuge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span> said 124,000 have arrived this year by sea. Most are travelling to Greek islands in the Aegean from the nearby Turkish mainland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turkey is home to more than 1.8 million Syrian refugees escaping the four-year civil war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One Turkish coastguard officer in Cesme said his crew rescued 700 people in the past week, which he said was a record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There has been a calamitous increase, and we do not have the resources to meet their needs," the officer said. AP, Reuters</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> makes a new life as a Michael Jackson</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Garry Maddox   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>433 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Iranian <b>refugee</b> Abbas Sharhani spent three months in a Darwin detention centre, he was told how much he resembled Michael Jackson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Who?" he wondered.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The King of Pop was hardly known in the south of Iran where Sharhani lived as a member of the minority Ahwaz community until he fled as a 16-year-old, leaving his family behind. He made his way to Malaysia, Indonesia then Christmas Island by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when Sharhani watched Jackson's music videos as he settled into a new life in Australia, he became fascinated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I just loved him so much," he said. "I said to myself 'I just want to be that guy'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After learning the dance moves from music videos, Sharhani is working as a Michael Jackson impersonator.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With his hair straightened and plastic surgery on his nose - his old one looked too much like his idol when he was black, he said - he calls himself Moon Jackson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I do the dances," he said. "I dress like him. Everything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well, not quite everything. Limited English restricts his singing but he is working on it in the hope of getting more work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now Sharhani's transformation from <b>asylum</b> seeker to the spitting image of the late pop star is the subject of a short documentary, Man in the Mirror, that will have its world premiere at the Arab Film Festival Australia, which opens at Parramatta's Riverside Theatres on Thursday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sharhani, 20, from Warwick Farm in south-western Sydney, remembers being terrified on the <b>boat</b> with 50 other <b>asylum</b> seekers during the journey to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I thought we were going to die," he said. "It was really dangerous. Three days, no food. I had nothing."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sharhani's very western career choice - and the nose job it required - has upset his strict Muslim parents. "They are like 'why would you impersonate someone you don't know?"' he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even with a new career, Sharhani has found Australia a difficult place to live away from his family, describing himself as "one of the loneliest people on this Earth".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Directed by fellow Iranian <b>refugee</b> Ali Mousawi, Man in the Mirror screens on Sunday, with Sharhani performing after.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mousawi was shocked when he first met Sharhani through a mutual friend in Parramatta.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He really looked like MJ," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"And he practised how to speak like him." Festival co-director Fadia Abboud expects over 2000 people over four days of screenings, including a big turnout for the Lebanese film Ghadi on opening night.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Iranians in visa deal wait</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOHN MASANAUSKAS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>202 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THOUSANDS of Iranian <b>asylum</b> seekers living in Melbourne on bridging visas face being sent back to Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are waiting nervously as the Abbott Government seeks to cut a deal with Iran to repatriate those who do not qualify for <b>refugee</b> status.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 3000 Iranian nationals — more than any other group — are living freely in Melbourne on the special visa as their claims are processed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has previously said that about 13,200 Iranians came illegally to Australia by <b>boat</b> under Labor’s watch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most are considered economic migrants who flew to Indonesia and then hired people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bishop visited Iran in June and confirmed that officials had discussed an agreement to return failed <b>asylum</b> seekers to Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victoria has more than 10,000 people on bridging visa E, with Sri Lankans, Afghanis and Pakistanis also well represented.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After tough border control policies, only 2000 people are now in immigration detention in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iranians are again the biggest group with 434, followed by Sri Lanka (188), New Zealand (157), China (155) and Vietnam (130).Reasons for detention include overstaying, visas cancelled, illegal maritime and air arrivals, and foreign fishermen.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter van Onselen Contributing Editor   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This session of parliament is unlikely to be a productive one</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today’s return of parliament after the long winter recess is anything but a happy affair.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The House of Representatives will hear condolences for the member for Canning, Don ­Randall, who died suddenly of a heart attack just a few weeks ago. Those remarks by his former ­colleagues on both sides of the house, as well as the selection of the new Speaker (which constitutionally must be the first item on the parliamentary agenda), will round out the day, with debate otherwise suspended until tomorrow out of respect for Randall.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government had hoped that a strong legislative end to the first half of the parliamentary year and the difficulties confronting the Labor Party during the winter recess would combine to give Tony Abbott much needed momentum this week and next, with the return of parliamentary sittings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The prospect of an early election to take advantage of changing circumstances was therefore ­considered a live option by some, but not any more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The need to select a new Speaker has come about because of the expenses scandal that engulfed Bronwyn Bishop during the parliamentary break, when it was revealed that she used a helicopter to fly from Melbourne to Geelong for a Liberal Party fundraiser at taxpayers’ expense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Subsequent revelations highlighted that she had also claimed entitlements to attend the ­weddings of colleagues, with the Speaker’s office citing “confidential meetings” on the eve of these weddings to justify official ­business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister stepped in to defend Bishop, initially dismissing the attention on her as “village gossip”. When Bishop refused to apologise, her reaction became as much a part of the saga as the apparent misuse of entitlements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She finally resigned, after privately being urged to do so by many of her colleagues, once it turned out a belated apology wasn’t enough for the government to put the saga behind it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal MPs reported being inundated with complaints about “snouts in the trough” and couldn’t attend official events without jokes being made about what form of transport they used to get there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop’s handling of this whole mess, as well as Abbott’s strong support of her, halted the momentum that had been building before the winter recess, and it overshadowed problems for Labor ­during the break, which might otherwise have put Bill Shorten under pressure given the decline in his personal support according to the polls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While during the recess the Opposition Leader faced hostile questioning at the trade union royal commission, with concerning revelations about his use of an undeclared staffer on his 2007 election campaign, paid for by an employer with which his union was negotiating, any follow up or lingering damage was overshadowed by the Bishop saga.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s national conference could have sparked serious longer-term divisions within the party, but again the Bishop saga drew attention away. The divisions in the debate over whether Labor should support <b>asylum boat</b> turnbacks saw former deputy PM and leadership contender Anthony Albanese oppose Shorten, and the new deputy, Tanya Plibersek, as well as Senate leader Penny Wong couldn’t bring themselves to vote for turnbacks, proxying out their votes to opponents of the policy. Plans to bind Labor MPs in favour of same-sex marriage in four years’ time, if the laws haven’t changed, were also divisive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it didn’t matter. Everyone was talking about why Bishop wouldn’t apologise or step aside as her saga dragged on unresolved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We saw Labor embrace an aspirational renewable energy target at the national conference, which would seek to achieve 50 per cent renewable energy usage in just 15 years. The economics and the science behind doing so appear shaky at best, and Shorten released little by way of details to show how he might get there. It gave the government the chance to accuse Labor of wanting to increase electricity prices, and Abbott jumped all-in when launching his attacks. The price tag the government put on the policy was $60 billion, although this seemed as arbitrary as the target itself. The Environment Department estimates the cost at a “ballpark” $85bn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Again the Bishop saga, which has widened into an entitlements debate more generally with a review now under way, tarring the entire political class, distracted from a Labor policy that appears poorly thought through. The government will use this sitting fortnight to ramp up attacks on Labor’s renewable target, but the opportunity to attack it will at best have a delayed political impact now, courtesy of Bishop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The (mis)handling of the Speaker’s departure raised further questions about Abbott’s judgment. Promoting her to the chair was a “captain’s pick” by Abbott, a phrase that has become synonymous with poor decision-making. Such weakening of Abbott’s authority now risks becoming a feature in the second half of the year, right at the time when the government needs to start gearing up for an election. Both the government and the opposition, now licking their wounds over the entitlements debate, will try and use this sitting fortnight to move on from the whole sordid affair.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether Labor can do that, with Tony Burke still serving as the manager of opposition business after the blowback over his own use of entitlements, remains to be seen. As the lead attack dog against Bishop, Burke’s colleagues would have hoped there were no entitlements skeletons in his closest. It wasn’t to be.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the coming weeks will see some attention paid to the planned private member’s bill to legislate same-sex marriage, supported by backbenchers on both sides of the parliament, for the most part the coming weeks will see parliament focus on legislation that has already been crafted as well as policy announcements from last week that were overshadowed by the entitlements debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott’s visit to South Australia led to a major announcement about spending running into tens of billions of dollars to support shipbuilding in a state reeling from the decline of its car manufacturing sector. While uncertainty remains over what might happen with the building of the next-generation submarines, the news that contracts will be awarded to ASC for shipbuilding is designed to shore up Liberal support in a state where its polling can only be described as diabolical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Expect plenty of dorothy dixers on this subject in question time in the coming weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Senate will debate and likely pass the government’s Medical Research Future Fund Bill, while both houses will debate the second tranche of the small business package from the May budget. Small Business Minister Bruce Billson will receive his fair share of dorothy dixers too, allowing him to spruik the unincorporated small business tax discount, immediate deductibility for small business start-up expenses and exemptions to fringe benefit taxes contained in the package.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government believes it is on a winner in promoting such policies as a way of securing the support of the Liberals’ traditional ally small business. But some Liberals point out that the growing concerns of big business with the way the government is travelling risks reflecting some of the divisions that surfaced in the 1980s as well as in the final term of the Howard government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen used his appearance on Australian Agenda on Sky News yesterday to attack Billson’s plan to include an “effects test” in Section 46 of the competition law, and his concerns are shared by the <span class="companylink">Business Council of Australia</span> as well as former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello. Abbott is believed to support Billson’s objective, but Joe Hockey has reservations, as do other senior members of the cabinet. This issue risks further dividing a cabinet that has become more than a little leaky of late.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today’s Newspoll shows a continued worsening of the government’s two-party vote, now trailing Labor 46 to 54 per cent. Speculation about an early election later this year appears redundant in light of the government’s mismanaged winter recess and the state of the polls, but the sort of trigger Abbott might want for a double dissolution election may present itself in the coming weeks if parliament rejects the Australian Building and Construction Commission bill, which is before the Senate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Abbott and Industrial Relations Minister Eric Abetz appear reluctant to embrace much needed industrial relations reforms because of continued timidity in the wake of Work Choices, they are keen to highlight trade union wrongdoings, and the construction sector is fertile ground for doing so. If Shorten continues to block the ABCC he might find himself fighting an early election, perhaps at the start of next year, triggered by his decision to block efforts to clean up the construction sector and improve oversight. That is, if the government’s fortunes improve in coming months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s strategy this fortnight will simply be to continue its campaign against broken promises from the last election, namely in health and education. The difficulty for the government is that to effectively get debt under control and embrace the sorts of economic reforms the nation needs in order to lift productivity and growth, it can’t be constrained by the unnecessary promises of Abbott prior to the election. They were off the cuff on the eve of an election already won, but they have damaged the government’s credibility, reduced its policy options and given Labor a repetitive parliamentary strategy of zeroing in on any backflips in question time. This fortnight will be no different.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prosecuting the case for welfare reform, something Scott Morrison has been doing effectively since moving into his new portfolio, will be made harder in the wake of the ongoing entitlements debate. How he goes about reigniting support for such reforms will require a deft hand, which if successfully done will only further raise his stocks as the government’s best performing minister. In the current political environment this of itself might raise leadership speculation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will be interesting to see if national security and anti-terror legislation receives the same attention it did earlier in the year. We may soon see follow-up legislation to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s first wave of proposed laws designed to strip dual passport holders of citizenship if they take part in terrorism. Both sides are divided on how far the laws should go, the cabinet in particular. How these divisions impact on the debate may well be driven by the political capital each leader has (or doesn’t have) in their back pocket.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While this sitting fortnight won’t offer much on the tax and federation reforming fronts, with white papers due and urgings coming from business and key industry groups for serious political engagement with these issues, there will be pressure on both parties to respond. The Reserve Bank’s intervention, declaring that a low-growth future may be unavoidable, makes it all the more important that political parties take reform seriously and don’t rely on growth alone to fix the ­budget deficit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the partisan divide being as strong as it is makes ­genuine public debate over options for reform very difficult, sending both sides back into their trenches. Nowhere is this more evident than in Labor’s refusal to consider GST reform and the government’s unwillingness to look at reforming superannuation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The return of parliament does offer a chance for serious legislative debate, but with the second anniversary of the Abbott government having just passed, both major parties are moving on to an election footing.We know from experience that such a shift will stymie the sorts of debates demanded by an increasing array of stakeholders.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Why Tony ‘Perk’ is a high-flying hypocrite</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MIRANDA DEVINE   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHEN Tony Burke was sitting up the pointy end of the plane with his three children, did he spare a thought for the poor saps walking past to the cheap seats who were paying for his indulgence?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Did he worry about the $16,000 cost to taxpayers of the RAAF luxury jet he commandeered to whisk him from Hobart to Sydney?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No, the Opposition finance spokesman, who led the attack on Bronwyn Bishop’s $5000 helicopter extravagance, is a first-class hypocrite. That’s bad enough on expenses but, on matters of life and death, when he was immigration minister, it is ­unforgivable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Burke could have escaped further scrutiny for his part in Labor’s bloodstained record on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he just couldn’t resist moral grandstanding at the ALP conference last month. His speech there was widely praised as both compassionate and tough, designed as it was to support Labor leader Bill Shorten’s belated embrace of <b>asylum</b>- seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Burke’s voice quavered as he spoke of a Post-it note he kept on his desk when he was immigration minister in the waning days of the second Rudd government. On it was written the name of Abdul Jafari, a 10-week-old baby who drowned when a <b>boat</b> capsized off the coast of Java on July 24, 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I remember asking my staff to go to the department and get his name. The staff came back and said: ‘Oh, no ... They can’t give you the name and you can’t use it in the media’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And I said: ‘Can you just tell them I don’t want to use it in the media? He was 10 weeks old. He died on my watch. I just want to know his name’. I was given his name on a Post-it note, and I kept that Post-it note on my desk until we lost office.” Well, wow. Big deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three weeks after Burke stuck that Post-it note on his desk, another <b>boat</b> capsized, on August 16, 2013, with 14 people missing, presumed drowned. On August 20, another <b>boat</b>, ­another five people missing. This happened with sickening regularity on Labor’s “watch”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And on and on it would have gone if it hadn’t been for the election on September 18 that ended Labor’s humanitarian ­catastrophe. The death toll for recklessly dismantling Howard-era border protections? At least 1200. Did Burke put all the names of the deceased on little Post-it notes? He would have run out of room on his desk if Labor had stayed in office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only thing that stopped the deaths was the election of the Abbott government and the replacement of Burke by Scott Morrison and his much-mocked Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only one <b>boat</b> has arrived on Abbott’s “watch”. This supposed miracle was achieved using commonsense measures like <b>boat</b> turnbacks and temporary protection visas, which had been so derided by Burke and Kevin Rudd, when they were in charge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Remember when they said <b>boat</b> turnbacks would cause war with Indonesia? “Konfrontasi”, they called it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All their pre-election tough talk, TV ads and hastily confec-ted PNG option was a mirage, aimed at fooling voters in marginal seats, not ending the ­people-smuggler trade. It was all for show, just like Burke’s mawkish performance at the ALP conference last month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He should have delivered that speech in July, 2013, when it might have saved lives and shamed the <b>refugee</b> lobby. He should have told the media little Abdul’s name. Instead, he kept it secret on his Post-it note for two years to use as political theatre to enhance Labor’s electoral prospects in Opposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week Immigration Minister Peter Dutton announced 12 months without a single illegal <b>boat</b> ­arrival. No more drownings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people smugglers have moved on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The detention centres are closing. The budget is $500 million a year better off. Stopping the boats is the Abbott government’s singular ­triumph, and can’t be under-­estimated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And yet last week Labor, Fairfax and Melbourne University branded it the “worst government ever” while giving Labor a free pass.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Give me a break.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, recalcitrant <b>refugee</b> activists depict the government as heartless and racist, while ignoring the record numbers of genuine refugees being resettled here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is the most generous country in the world when it comes to refugees, whether you measure by GDP or per head of population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year we resettled 11,570 refugees, according to the <span class="companylink">UN</span>, placing us ahead of Canada, Norway and the US, on a per capita basis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the <b>Refugee</b> Council claimed last week that the “fairest comparison” was with countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, which, as hapless neighbours in conflict zones, have hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming across their borders. Should we move Australia to the Middle East?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This zeal from the Left to downplay Australia’s generosity, and see cruelty and racism where none exists, is perverse.It comes from the same blind hypocrisy that sees Tony Abb-ott castigated for his deposed speaker’s helicopter excesses while Tony “Perk” is applauded for weeping over a Post-it note.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nation pulls its weight on refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE: STEFANIE BALOGH   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nation pulling its weight on refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is the world’s most ­generous nation for resettling genuine refugees when calcu­lated per head of population and by national wealth, pipping Canada and ­Norway.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia gave a new home to 11,570 of the world’s most vulnerable people last year by providing offshore humanitarian places to refugees approved by the UN’s <b>Refugee</b> Agency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many were languishing in <b>refugee</b> camps. New figures from the <b>Refugee</b> Council show the US resettled 77,011 refugees in 2014, followed by Canada, which resettled 12,277 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia comes in third, but when the resettlement figures are calculated by head of population the nation is the top provider of <b>refugee</b> places. It is followed by Canada, Norway and the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia also emerges as the most generous nation in the tally of resettlement places when they are calculated by GDP, followed by Canada and Finland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told The Weekend Australian: “Australian taxpayers con­tribute significantly to the program. The average taxpayer is sick of the Labor Party and the Left advocate groups making us feel guilty about the number of refugees we settle in our ­country.’’ The ability to provide ­humanitarian places for offshore refugees is seen as a significant dividend of stopping the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been 12 months since a people-smuggling vessel successfully arrived in Australia. During that time, Operation Sovereign Borders turned back or undertook the assisted return of eight boats carrying 235 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In all there have been 20 turnbacks in 20 months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government is keen for Australia to be viewed internationally as a leading humanitarian player, instead of the focus being concentrated on the nation’s border-protection efforts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month, on the ABC’s Q&A, <span class="companylink">Queensland Premier</span> Annastacia Palaszczuk corrected former Queensland Liberal National Party senator Ron Boswell when he said Australia took in more refugees than any other country. “No, we don’t. No we don’t,’’ Ms Palaszczuk said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was backed by ABC television presenter Virginia Trioli, who chimed in, saying: “There are many other countries that take many more than us, Ron Boswell.’’ But the new figures show Australia was the top resettlement nation of refugees in 2014 based on national wealth and population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said it was a case of “the usual suspects talking Australia down instead of talking up the fact we are the most generous nation in resettlement’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The main groups who resettled in Australia last year were Afghans from Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia, as well as Iraqi minorities from a range of countries but particularly located in Syria, Turkey and Jordan, as well as refugees from Myanmar from camps along the Thai-Myanmar border, Malaysia and India.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia also gave places to Syrians in Lebanon, Bhutanese from Nepal, refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and a range of countries in Africa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia, the humanitarian program was skewed during the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years because the onshore component, traditionally about 2500 places, grew rapidly to accommodate <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>. In 2011-12, the Labor government provided 6004 <b>refugee</b> places, 714 special humanitarian (offshore) places and 7041 places for onshore applicants. In 2012-13, Labor raised the overall intake to 20,000 places, but only 12,012 were for offshore humanitarian places, with 7500 given to those who arrived by <b>boat</b>.The Abbott government has set the humanitarian program at 13,750 places, of which a minimum of 11,000 are reserved for people applying outside of Australia. It will increase to 18,750 by 2018. Labor has vowed to increase it to 27,000 by 2025.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Smugglers to take on Labor</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten should have no illusions about the task he and a divided Labor Party face in turning back the boats if they win the next election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As reported in today’s <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun, Australia has turned back 20 boats carrying more than 600 <b>asylum</b> seekers since the Abbott Government won power almost two years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What that says to Labor is that people smugglers will test any new government’s resolve by sending more boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten put his leadership on the line at the ALP conference, but fractured his frontbench by putting <b>boat</b> turn-backs to a vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It passed, but at a cost, as the party’s Left wing was pushed into a corner on a policy it does not agree with. Whether the policy, which is at best an “option’’, holds in government is open to question.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not the first time Labor has gone to an election with the promise it will stop the people smugglers only to turn back on its word.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy was dropped after Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election and the people smugglers will waste no time in launching a new flotilla to test this policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Between 2007 and 2013, under Mr Rudd and Julia Gillard, more than 50,000 people arrived by <b>boat</b> and at least 1200 died at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott Government’s military operation to turn back the boats started in December 2013. It followed those dreadful years in which so many <b>asylum</b> seekers drowned, some dashed against the storm-lashed cliffs of Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians were confronted with harrowing scenes in the media as men, women and children met their deaths with rescuers unable to help them. It must never be repeated but what likelihood is there of Labor’s new policy holding up when today’s revelations by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton show people smugglers have repeatedly sent their boats to test the Abbott Government’s resolve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s policy, by contrast, is an option that will have to be activated time and time again if it is to succeed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people smugglers know this and that each time they test the policy, it will create another crisis for an already split Labor leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten has been able to convince the Left wing of the party and leaders such as former deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese that it is the price of winning government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But will the centre hold when the boats start coming if Labor wins next year? Some 2000 children were in detention under Labor where there are now 100 under the Coalition. That situation, with all the hardships suffered by children behind the wire, must never be repeated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s allied policy of abolishing temporary protection visas removes another disincentive for <b>asylum</b> seekers crammed aboard smugglers’ boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people smugglers will tell their desperate passengers they will be given permanent residency permits, which will add to their sales pitch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a cruel trade and one that bedevils Australia as it tries to come to terms with a highly emotional issue. Mr Shorten was right to embrace turn-backs, but whether he can carry it out will be one of the major questions leading up to the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton, in showing how the Abbott Government’s policy has worked, should continue to release information about the turn-backs. Australians are entitled to know what is being done in their name.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last-resort lenders THE alarming case of an ice addict taking out small loans to finance his drug binges highlights the increasing problem of “payday” lenders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are companies that typically make small loans available to desperate borrowers at high rates of interest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As reported in the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun, the ice addict spent his first loan of $9000 on a three-day bender and was given a second loan of $6000 after his parents stepped in to pay off his arrears.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has now ordered a review of these last-resort lenders, saying the Government has a duty to prevent them benefiting from the misfortunes of others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are a number of companies making small but expensive loans available with payments scheduled around their clients’ paydays.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It can been seen as a form of loan sharking and, while such lenders might argue it is not their business what borrowers do with the money, the conditions surrounding loans to a captive market need to be examined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The prevalence of these payday loans also illustrates the insidious spread of ice in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The parents of the 27-year-old who borrowed to finance his binges say their son is now in rehab, which is where many ice users find themselves, usually at a considerable cost to the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ice is cheap and highly addictive and is seen by bikie gangs, who manufacture and distribute the drug, as a growth industry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The payday lenders also see a chance to turn a profit on someone’s misery. Mr Frydenberg’s review shows a responsible attitude to an increasing economic issue, as well focusing on a significant health problem that shows little sign of being resolved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TOUCHED BY THE ROAD TOLL THIS YEAR 148 LAST YEAR 149 Victorian deaths in 2015, compared with the same day last year</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We saved lives in turn-back, says commander</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>537 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border officials saved the lives of <b>asylum</b> seekers on a <b>boat</b> whose crew was allegedly paid to return to Indonesia, the head of Australia's border security operations has revealed, saying the vessel was struggling in bad weather and had called for help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The statement by Major-General Andrew Bottrell indirectly rejects claims by Indonesian police that Australian authorities sent the <b>asylum</b> seekers back on a "suicide mission".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he stopped short of confirming or denying the alleged payments. Indonesian police said they amounted to bribery and the Australian government should provide answers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> revealed in June that passengers and an Indonesian police chief claimed Australian border protection officials paid people smugglers to return <b>asylum</b> seekers intercepted north of Australia en route to New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was alleged that crew members were paid $5000 each. The Australian government has never confirmed the payments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Major-General Bottrell, the commander of the military-led Operation Sovereign Borders, wrote to a parliamentary committee investigating if cash or other inducements have been paid in exchange for <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He offered "additional information in relation to a recent assisted return" in late May, saying the <b>boat</b> was observed by border protection officials north of Australia "operating in poor weather conditions, which were rapidly deteriorating".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The master of the vessel indicated they were experiencing difficulty and requested assistance," he said, adding Australian authorities offered immediate help and "assisted the safe return of the people to Indonesia". "I believe our actions to assist this vessel were necessary to preserve the safety of life of those on board," Major-General Bottrell said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed the passengers and crew were transferred to two new boats for the return journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesian authorities have previously said sending 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers back with just a drum of fuel for each <b>boat</b> was akin to "a suicide mission".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday revealed 630 <b>asylum</b> seekers on 20 boats had been turned back under the Abbott government, including a group that was returned to Vietnam last month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rare release of usually secret details of "on-water operations" comes more than a year since an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> has arrived in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The last <b>boat</b>, containing 157 Tamil <b>asylum</b> seekers, arrived in June last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If people smugglers see ventures getting to Australia successfully, that is a green light for the people smugglers to be back in business," Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are not going to allow the deaths at sea to recommence."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is widely accepted that the turn-back policy, described as cruel by critics, has dramatically stemmed the flow of <b>asylum</b> seeker boats headed to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At Labor's national conference last month, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten headed off an attempt by the Left faction to amend the party's platform to prohibit a future Labor government turning boats back to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton confirmed 46 people on a <b>boat</b> from Vietnam were returned last month, the government's first admission of the <b>boat</b>'s existence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocates believe the <b>boat</b> contained women and children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They expressed fears for the passengers' safety on their return.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>600 forced to turn back</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS National Political Reporter   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>409 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not a single people-smuggling <b>boat</b> reaches Australian shore in past year</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA has gone an ­entire year without a single people-smuggling <b>boat</b> successfully reaching land.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday confirmed the milestone, revealing 20 boats, with more than 600 people on board, had successfully been turned around since December 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All boats were sent back to their country of origin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have been able to stare down these evil people smugglers that would trade in bringing people to our country and under Operation Sovereign Borders not to have had a successful people-smuggling venture for 12 months is a very significant outcome,’’ Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month a Vietnamese <b>boat</b> with more than 40 <b>asylum</b> seekers on board was turned around off the West Australian coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said, had the 20 boats got through, it might have led to up to 2000 boats trying to make the deadly journey, which saw about 1200 people drown at sea under the previous government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s why (Sovereign Borders) will remain because we are not going to allow the deaths at sea to recommence,” Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m not going to allow detention centres to be refilled by new children arriving on boats — 2000 children were in detention under Labor.” Under Labor more than 50,000 people arrived illegally on about 800 boats. The success of Operation Sovereign Borders has forced Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to adopt the policy as an “option” for the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The move split the party at Labor’s national conference last month when deputy leader Tanya Plibersek, senate leader Penny Wong and leadership rival Anthony Albanese opposed the move being written into the policy platform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said the split made it questionable whether Labor would turn back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Mr Shorten will never be able to act. His Deputy Tanya Plibersek, Senate leader Penny Wong and other senior frontbenchers remain fundamentally opposed to tough action against people smugglers,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They will never allow the tough action that is required to keep Australia safe and our borders secure.” Both shadow immigration minister Richard Marles and Mr Shorten claim Labor will turn back boats if required and insist no smuggled arrivals would be allowed to settle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor claim they would be more open than the government’s secrecy which surrounds the policy and would abolish temporary protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EDITORIAL PAGE 74</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbacks keep 20 boats away</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>147 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government has stopped the arrival of 633 <b>asylum</b>-seekers by turning back 20 boats over the past 20 months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vowing to maintain the policy, Immigration Minister Peter ­Dutton revealed it had been 12 months since people-smugglers successfully completed a journey to Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If just one people-smuggling venture had succeeded, “thousands of ­people would have ­followed’’, he warned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Had those 20 boats got through, thousands of people would have followed them and that was the lesson of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years,’’ Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If people-smugglers see ­ventures getting to Australia successfully — even one venture — that is a green light for the people-smugglers to be back in business.’’ The Labor Party reversed course on <b>boat</b> turnbacks late last month, abandoning its previous resistance to the Coalition’s hard-line border protection deterrent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FULL REPORT P3</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>20 boats turned back</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>189 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA has turned back 20 <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats with more than 600 people on board since the Abbott Government came to power almost two years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday made the rare disclosure surrounding Operation Sovereign Borders while confirming it had been 12 months since people-­smugglers had completed a successful journey.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The military-style operation started turning back ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker boats in ­December 2013, three months after the Abbott Government came to power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have been able to stare down these evil people smugglers that would trade in bringing people to our country and under Operation Sovereign Borders — not to have had a successful people-smuggling venture for 12 months — is a very significant outcome,’’ Mr Dutton said, confirming 633 people were on the 20 boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor voted at its national conference last month it would support the option of using <b>boat</b> turnbacks as a deterrent if it won the next election.Between 2007 and 2013, under former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, more than 50,000 people ­arrived by <b>boat</b> and at least 1200 people died at sea.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020150806eb870001o</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020150804eb850004s" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Today</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>tod arts glitters</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Stephen Bevis   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>483 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T he Last Great Hunt theatrical team is on the prowl again, this time with a show that could be said to be about sprinkling glitter on a turd.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All That Glitters, by writer- director Gita Bezard, is a theatrical pop-music extravaganza with the emotion of protest and rebellion, says fellow Last Great Hunter performer and co-devisor Arielle Gray.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The subject matter to be given the Mardis Gras-meets-Braveheart treatment will be that of <b>boat</b> people and the theatre-makers’ outrage about Australia’s obnoxious approach to them, Gray says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No matter how much <b>asylum</b>-seeker polices were covered in sparkles, they were still awful, she says. “It is a perfect metaphor for what is going on — except that our show will not be a turd.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gray says All That Glitters will be a mash-up of styles — meta-theatre, drama, pop-show and dance — to convey the frustrations and distractions of activism in the age of hashtag trivialisation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is going to be the most fun, hopefully, and most extravagant way audiences will have digested a piece of political theatre,” she says. “It is a political theatre piece and a protest piece but we didn’t want to lecture people, make it boring or speak for anyone. We are a bunch of middle-class white people and didn’t want to speak on anyone’s behalf.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are making a show about us trying to deal with the issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers through the medium of a theatrical extravaganza. Part of it is feeling helpless and hopeless and being unable to do anything helpful. Part of it is about what is going on and part of it is about us distracting ourselves from the horrors of the world.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bezard says when things seem so bleak it often seem easier to put on your headphones and drown yourself in Taylor Swift.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Making All That Glitters is about refusing to be silenced, refusing to do nothing in the face of injustice,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The show continues a diverse output from the company behind Alvin Sputnik, FagStag, Falling Through Clouds, Old Love and Minnie and Mona Play Dead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All That Glitters is the first of many shows to roll out at the Blue Room, the home of independent theatre in Perth, over the second half of 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ranging across dance, science-fiction, musical theatre and comedy, the highlights include an adaptation of Patrick White’s short story The Cockatoos, a tale about a young boy, his dog and a ukulele for the Awesome Festival and a play that combines theoretical physics and jazz in giving three versions of a 30-something woman’s life on the other side of the black hole.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All That Glitters opens the second half of the Blue Room Theatre season and run from August 11-29. Season details: blueroom.org.au.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020150804eb850004s</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150803eb840005d" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Security fears kept Afghan in detention</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SONIA KOHLBACHER, PAIGE TAYLOR, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>458 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Afghan <b>asylum</b>-seeker who died in a West Australian detention centre last week was being held indefinitely on security grounds, The Australian has been told.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mohammed Nassim Najafi arrived at Christmas Island by <b>boat</b> in 2012 claiming to be among the minority Hazaras from Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, an important gateway from the southeast to the capital, Kabul. It is a province where the Taliban is active in many places.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Security concerns were raised about Mr Najafi soon after his ­arrival and an assessment of the risk he might pose if released was in progress at the time he died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although many <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived at about the same time as Mr Najafi have long since been granted visas or allowed to live in the community while their cases are decided, The Australian has been told Mr Najafi was an exception for security reasons. He remained in detention while Australian security agencies investigated suspicions he might have been involved in the death of a person before he arrived in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Certain aspects of this individual’s case rendered him ineligible for community detention or a bridging visa while his protection claims were assessed,” a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Border Protection Department said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The safety and security of the Australian community is of paramount importance to the department. Consequently, individuals with suspected histories of criminal behaviour, serious ­incidents in detention or who are of interest to security agencies will not be released from detention until such concerns are ­alleviated.” The cause of Mr Najafi’s death is not known, although the department said at the weekend: “There is no indication of suicide or suspicious circumstances at this stage.” <b>Refugee</b> advocates often take up the cases of long-term detainees but it appears Mr Najafi was not known to the activists who make regular trips to the Yongah Hill Detention Centre in Northam, 96km northeast of Perth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>Refugee</b> Rights Action Network had never spoken to him, instead gleaning his story from other detainees. They have passed on concerns Mr Najafi had complained of being unwell in the weeks before he died, and allegations from detainees that Mr Najafi had been assaulted ­inside the centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali Khan, a spokesman for Perth’s Hazara community, said it was very unusual for Afghan <b>asylum</b>-seekers to be held in immigration detention for security reasons. Mr Khan, an immigration detention interpreter between 2009 and 2013, said during that time the detainees with ­security issues were mostly Tamils suspected of activities during the civil war.“In my four years as interpreter, I never knew an ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker from Afghanistan with a security question; this is quite strange,” he said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>afgh : Afghanistan | austr : Australia | waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | casiaz : Central Asia | dvpcoz : Developing Economies</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150803eb840005d</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020150803eb840003y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News - The Nation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Law Reform Commission calls for 'freedoms' review</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jane Lee   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>429 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">National security laws to boost the Abbott government's powers over returning foreign fighters and <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b>, and the controversial section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act are among those that interfere with "traditional freedoms" and should be reviewed, the <span class="companylink">Australian Law Reform Commission</span> says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attorney-General George Brandis tasked the commission in 2013 with reviewing federal laws for sections that interfere with "rights, freedoms and privileges", including the right to the freedom of movement, association, speech and religion.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its interim report, released on Monday, suggested a wide range of laws that could be reviewed and called for public submissions on them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A number of counter-terrorism powers, introduced to deal with potential threats around foreign fighters returning to Australia from Syria and Iraq, were of "particular concern" to the commission for interfering with the freedoms of movement, speech and association.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This included the powers to issue control orders, restricting people from leaving Australia, and preventative detention orders against those suspected of a terrorist act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While many laws had "strong and obvious justifications" for encroaching on human rights, "it may be desirable to review some ... to ensure that they do not unjustifiably" do so, the report said. The Independent National Security Legislation Monitor would be responsible for any further review of these laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report also questioned whether the offence of "advocating terrorism" impedes on freedom of expression. The Criminal Code makes it a crime to support the commission of a terrorist act, whether or not the other person will go on to perform the act as a result of this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The commission's report also recommends reopening a review into section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act because of its implications for free speech, despite the government dropping plans to amend this last August after widespread criticism that the change would remove a fundamental protection for Australians against racism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act makes public acts that are likely to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people" because of their race, colour, national or ethnic origin, unlawful.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other laws that extend the government's powers over <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> might also encroach on their right to natural justice, the report said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Migration Act contained a number of provisions that "may be characterised as excluding procedural fairness in the processing of unauthorised maritime arrivals".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman for Mr Brandis said the government would carefully consider the report.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gracm : Racism | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gdcri : Discrimination | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gpir : Politics/International Relations | gsoc : Social Issues</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150803eb840003y</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150802eb830001n" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Dream of better future dashed</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Neelima Choahan and Lisa Cox   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>406 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A005</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dream of better future dashed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Neelima Choahan and Lisa Cox</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Afghan <b>asylum</b> seeker who died on Friday at a West Australian detention centre was dreaming of a better future with his wife and two children, a detainee says. The comments come as Immigration Minister Peter Dutton was accused of being "missing in action" for not responding to the tragedy more than 24 hours after it happened. <b>Refugee</b> advocates have called for an immediate investigation of the incident and warned on Sunday that further protests by <b>asylum</b> seekers at the Yongah Hill Detention Centre were likely. Mohammad Nasim Najafi, who was in his mid-20s, is believed to have died from a heart attack. There are claims he had been denied medical treatment for two weeks. It is understood that Mr Najafi arrived at Christmas Island four years ago by <b>boat</b> after his family was killed by the Taliban. "He was a very sweet guy," the detainee said. "He had two boys and his wife was in India, illegally. He always talked about his family. His dream was to have a better future." Fellow detainees said they were denied an opportunity to say goodbye before authorities removed Mr Najafi's body. After protests at the centre on Saturday, the Australian <b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition said the number of unanswered questions about Mr Najafi's death warranted an inquiry. "There needs to be an immediate investigation, instead of waiting for the coroner," spokesman Ian Rintoul said. "The lack of medical staff available in Yongah Hill amounts to medical neglect." Protests at the centre were due to anger among detainees about the lack of care offered to Mr Najafi. <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> put questions to Mr Dutton's office and received a statement from the Immigration Department in response. "There is no indication of suicide or suspicious circumstances at this stage. The WA Police attended the centre and will now conduct an investigation as per normal practices in such cases," a spokeswoman said. "Detainees have access to appropriate healthcare and medical treatment at a standard at least comparable to the healthcare available to the Australian community." Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said Mr Dutton was "missing in action".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton later responded and said Senator Hanson-Young was trying to "exploit the death of this young man for her own political reasons and it is disgusting".</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150802eb830001n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020150802eb82000bq" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Revealed: Who’s paying the Bills for Shorten</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Samantha Maiden   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1008 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amid sobs and spite, Bill Shorten survives thanks to some intriguing allegiances, writes Samantha Maiden</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT was the vote that could have ended his leadership. Of course, if you listen to the Labor hardheads, “conference never rolls the leader” and Bill Shorten was always on safe ground at Labor’s annual gathering in Melbourne.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that belies the reality of what really went down last weekend, when Bill Shorten picked a fight that could have destroyed him — if not, in part, for a most unlikely saviour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kim Carr, the Victorian left powerbroker so influential and mercurial he has a faction in his own name, is ­responsible in large part for the survival of Shorten — the right-winger determined to stop Labor drifting ever closer to the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victorian unions also backed Shorten on boats, providing a tantalising hint at an alliance of the Right, Victorian Left and unions that may yet see Shorten remain Labor leader even if he loses the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carr reinforced his influence, refusing to honour Anthony Albanese’s demand for a binding vote to oppose ever using the Abbott government’s tactic of turning <b>asylum</b>-seeker vessels back to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carr’s support for turnbacks reflected the Victorian Right’s steely pragmatism about winning government. A left-wing group, Labor For Refugees, wanted the policy banned altogether. Shorten came out strongly before conference declaring he supported the policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, in the aftermath, Shorten tells The Sunday Telegraph he could not ask Australians to vote for him as Prime Minister if he failed to convince the ALP to use turnbacks “where safe to do so”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Warning Labor had needed to face the “hard truths’’ of failure in the Rudd-Gillard years, Shorten now accepts any failure to embrace turnbacks risked restarting the people-smuggling trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he has refused to guarantee he will contest the Labor leadership again if he loses next year’s election, maintaining he’s focused purely on getting the ALP’s policy settings right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP conference also forced Shorten into a last-minute deal on gay marriage. He desperately wanted to avert a Left push to enshrine gay marriage in the platform, effectively “binding” all MPs to vote for a gay marriage bill in parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, Shorten agreed that if elected, he would move to legalise gay marriage in the first 100 days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The boats issue exposed a deep split within his own leadership group, with Shorten’s deputy Tanya Plibersek and Labor Senate leader Penny Wong refusing to vote for Shorten’s position on turnbacks. It was a genuine test of his leadership, Shorten concedes now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I can’t ask Australians to vote for me as Prime Minister if I thought the policies that we had would restart the people smuggling trade,’’ he said. “The whole party knew that debate meant I would have the authority to turn back boats where it was safe to do so.” Shorten reveals the mass drownings in the Mediterranean in April strengthened his resolve. “What was also ­important about this debate is that we were facing up to hard truths. Mistakes had been made. Also across the line of the current government there have been 16 or 18 (<b>boat</b>) turnbacks and no loss of life. I thought about it long and hard, as (immigration spokesman) Richard Marles did. We spoke to lots of people. When we saw those mass drownings in the Mediterranean, I thought there can be no half measures.’’ Wong reveals she argued against turnbacks in shadow cabinet, but she agreed to abide by the decision of the ALP conference. She chose not to vote on the floor, instead sending a proxy to vote against the turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For the record, the proxy vote ­exercised at conference on my behalf ­reflected my longstanding opposition to tow backs. I will, of course, support the policy position now adopted by conference,’’ Wong said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor sources accused Left faction frontbenchers including Plibersek, ALP President Mark Butler and ­Anthony Albanese of effectively being sneaky, by failing to flag their intention to vote against turnbacks or use proxies in the pre-conference discussions of shadow cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, Albanese did raise concerns about whether the boats policy had been to Labor’s expenditure review committee. His supporters asserted that was “a slap” about the fact the policy was already stitched up before it hit conference. The ERC discussion meant the policy was now a non-negotiable matter of support for members of the ERC and Labor’s leadership group, which does not include Albanese, who was defeated by Shorten for the leadership after the 2013 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked why Plibersek had chosen to exercise a proxy vote instead of personally voting for the motion, Senator Carr said: “That’s a matter that you would have to take up with her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But if you don’t object there (in shadow cabinet) you need to follow that through on the floor of the conference.” Albanese defends his decision to break with Mr Shorten on boats ­revealing, “if people were in a <b>boat</b> ­including families and children I ­myself wouldn’t turn that around. I couldn’t ask someone to do something that I couldn’t see myself doing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I would want to make sure they were safe and secure,” Albanese said. Shorten’s decision to “have the fight’’ at conference surprised some on his frontbench with former rival Albanese questioning the strategy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I wasn’t going to be one thing at ALP conference and another thing at the election,’’ Shorten says. “It was a test of leadership. What you see is what you get. There’s no ambiguity here. That’s what I said in shadow cabinet. There was no avoiding this ­argument. I couldn’t guarantee the ­reaction of the ALP conference but I had to have the debate.” Shorten insists the Labor Party was “more united’’ for having the fight. “My style of leadership is not a dictatorship,’’ he said.samantha.maiden@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Iranian sues Canberra over detention distress</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>171 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker is suing the Australian Government for more than $750,000, claiming his time in detention centres left him a psychological wreck.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mehran Behrooz, 39, spent more than three years in Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre and the Baxter Immigration and Detention Centre after arriving in Australia on an unauthorised <b>boat</b> in December 2000.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Between January 2001 and October 2003, Mr Behrooz claims he was exposed to several traumatic events which left him with post traumatic stress disorder and a depressive illness. This included being held in “prolonged detention in a physically restraining, harsh and isolated environment” where he was at times denied food and medical treatment, according to his statement of claim tendered to the NSW Supreme Court.Mr Behrooz claims he witnessed other detainees attempting suicide, sewing their lips together, cutting themselves with glass and jumping from a compound fence on to razor wire. He was eventually hospitalised. The Government says it will fight Mr Behrooz’s claim.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | iran : Iran | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | gulfstz : Persian Gulf Region | meastz : Middle East | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020150802eb8200085</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020150802eb820004l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seeker dies in detention</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»NATALIE O’BRIEN, NEELIMA CHOAHAN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>485 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Afghan <b>asylum</b> seeker has died at a West Australian detention centre from a suspected heart attack amid claims he had been denied medical treatment for two weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocates say that the Yongah Hill Detention Centre, northeast of Perth, is in lockdown and the riot squad has been mobilised after fellow detainees were told about the death of the Afghan man, believed to be Mohammad Nasim Najafi.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman for the Department of Immigration could not confirm that the centre was in lockdown but said a male detainee had died and that there was no indication of suicide or suspicious circumstances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘The WA Police attended the centre and will now conduct an investigation as per normal practices in such cases,’’ the spokeswoman said. ‘‘The department extends our deepest sympathy to the individual’s family and friends. Appropriate support is being provided to detainees and staff at the centre. As the matter is currently under investigation, no further details can be provided.’’ Fellow detainees said the man was sick and had been complaining about a heart condition for the past two weeks. ‘‘They did not let him see a doctor . . . only gave him Panadol,’’ said a detainee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘He said he couldn’t breathe . . .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">they let him die. Everyone is sad, very sad,’’ he said. ‘‘But they [the authorities] don’t care.’’ Greens Senator Sarah Hanson- Young said the circumstances surrounding the death warranted a full investigation. ‘‘We are hearing more and more cases of <b>asylum</b> seekers who are not receiving access to even the most basic level of health care,’’ she said. ‘‘It is time for a thorough review of the health and welfare services across the detention network.’’ It is understood that Mr Najafi, who was in his mid-20s, arrived at Christmas Island four years ago by <b>boat</b> after his family was killed by the Taliban. It is understood he had a wife who was living in India.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A detainee who knew him said he had suffered mental health problems after the death of his father. The detainee said the only treatment offered was medication that made them ‘‘sleep all the time’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ian Rintoul from the <b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition said the death has highlighted the neglect and lack of medical care in the detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘There is no excuse for keeping someone in detention for three years,’’ Mr Rintoul said. ‘‘If he had been in the community, he would more likely still be alive.’’ The chairman of the Afghan- Australian Association Khaliq Fazal said most <b>asylum</b> seekers had already survived difficult times to get to here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘You take all those hard risks to come here and then to die like this is heartbreaking,’’ Mr Fazal said. ‘‘Not only has this young man lost his life, now his family is ruined and God knows what will happen to them.’’</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>mooner column for sat</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL MURRAY </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>986 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T ony Abbott’s attitude to renewable energy has been as sensible as Don Quixote’s approach to windmills.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any national leader who opposes wind farms on the basis they are “visually awful” can’t expect to be taken too seriously. Coal-fired power stations, for example, are rarely works of art.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever the Prime Minister’s misgivings about the economics of the renewables sector, he should have learnt the lessons of recent history that the bald rejection of green energy is politically risky.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By all means, Abbott could explain the benefits of cheap local fuel sources and the need for a measured transition to renewables that doesn’t harm the economy or overreach on cutting our carbon emissions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he needs to resist the urge to embrace so carnally those finite fuel sources that much of the developed world is trying to find ways to replace.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nothing put more wind under Kevin Rudd ’s wings in 2007 than John Howard’s refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. It branded him as out of touch with modern society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s the background to Labor’s move at its national conference last week to float the idea of a renewable energy target of 50 per cent by 2030, knowing that Abbott would instinctively oppose it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which he did, claiming such a policy would add “$60 billion or more” to the nation’s power bills and lead to “a massive overbuild of wind farms”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In truth it’s not even a policy. Bill Shorten called it an ambition, whatever that means. It’s really a thought bubble fashioned into a political wedge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Abbott will have trouble fighting this Labor tactic because of his own poor positioning on renewable energy and climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has been unable or unwilling to find a credible path between his successful opposition to “a great big new tax on everything” and the logical and separate development of renewable energy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And that’s probably because he just doesn't believe in it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, it is possible not to swallow alarmist climate change dogma while still valuing the transition to cleaner forms of energy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are good arguments around limiting the amount of wind power in some circumstances on the basis its intermittent and fluctuating nature unbalances big power grids and makes them inefficient.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that doesn’t mean wind turbines cannot be a useful part of a power mix in suitable areas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, they will usually involve some element of subsidy unless power charges rise alarmingly. And in a mixed system they require the use of on-demand fossil fuel power to even out transmission troughs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which is why large-scale solar is increasingly seen as a more attractive future proposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both need the support of a credible RET system to keep the transition process funded while the rest of the world commits to genuine emissions cuts which we could mirror without economic damage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor will have huge difficulty promoting its 50 per cent RET without admitting that it would quickly add much more to domestic power bills than Julia Gillard’s carbon tax.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As it is, the Government will seek to corner Labor again as supporting some form of carbon impost to provide a cornerstone of its next election campaign. Labor was recently caught out discussing such plans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there are some added nasties for Labor in the RET issue too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mining union, the CFMEU, saved Shorten’s bacon at the Labor conference on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs and in return expects him to fight the China free trade agreement which it says imperils Australian jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the union was also an unlikely supporter of the expanded renewables target and it wants its pound of flesh there, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The national president, Tony Maher , is demanding Labor compensate power workers displaced by the RET policy, many of whom now earn six-figure salaries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Lots of money,” Maher told the ABC. “Yeah, worth every cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And that’s how they did it in Germany. It was income support or early retirement and it all costs money.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such featherbedding in the face of technological change has never been seen in Australia. It would treat power workers differently from those in the car industry or the media, for example, where thousands are out of work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As recently as May, Maher was opposing the 50 per cent RET in an open letter to the Labor Environment Action Network which is behind the new policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The LEAN target implies that we can meet the global warming challenge largely through targeting electricity, which is manifestly untrue,” Maher wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It imposes harsh restructuring on one industry — power generation — while failing to achieve the goal of broadly reducing Australia’s emissions that contribute to global warming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“While the existing RET has been a modest contributor to higher electricity costs (the main contributor has been higher transmission and distribution costs), a higher RET will mean more costs imposed on an industry that is already struggling due to the Australian dollar being persistently high for many years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The costs of the RET scheme (which wouldn’t be needed or proposed at all if renewable energy technologies were already cost-competitive as is sometimes claimed) are paid by cross-subsidies from other energy purchasers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So RETs push up the cost of household energy for all users whether or not they have chosen renewable energy. Low income earners bear a disproportionate burden of these higher electricity costs.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those last lines from the person who seconded Labor’s new RET policy will return to haunt Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the giveaway to the raw politics behind Labor’s new “ambition” is the agreement it reached with the coalition in May to reduce the current 20 per cent by 2020 target from 41,000 gigawatt hours annually to 33,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do they think no one noticed?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>LABOR <b>REFUGEE</b> POLICY SHOULD FLOAT YOUR <b>BOAT</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOE HILDEBRAND   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>526 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>49</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YOU can take this next statement and pin it up in the pool room: Labor has it right on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>refugee</b> debate in this country has reached such hysterically stupid and smug proportions that the purpose of having a <b>refugee</b> program at all has been completely lost.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Above all, Australia’s moral duty is to provide refuge for as many legitimate <b>asylum</b> seekers as we can reasonably afford to.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And yet the hardline ideologues and self-righteous on both sides of politics are instead obsessed by the type of vehicle in which they come.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Incredibly, we have managed to turn a matter of life and death into an argument over transportation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s easy to write off the nutbag Right-wing anti-<b>refugee</b> mob. And so, in short, I will.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More troubling is the fashion-conscious Left’s blind obsession with the relatively tiny number of <b>asylum</b> seekers setting sail for Australia in boats and their equally blinkered dismissal of the relatively large number of those who die trying — which is, for the record, more than a thousand men, women and children lying dead somewhere in the Indian Ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The trouble is that many in the Left like to think of themselves as compassionate intellectuals, yet surely even the densest mind can see there is nothing compassionate or intelligent about that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That alone is reason enough to stop the boats, but there is perhaps an even more important one — 20 million of them, in fact.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s how many refugees there are registered with the <span class="companylink">UN</span>, most of them children and millions of them languishing in camps around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet when <b>boat</b> arrivals were at their peak in the dying days of the Gillard government, the number of <b>boat</b> arrivals threatened to overwhelm Australia’s entire — if paltry — humanitarian intake of around 13,000 persons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This meant that none of those souls could hope to gain a new life in Australia unless they gave their life savings and possibly their very lives to people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By any measure that is an obscenely cruel, idiotic and dangerous way to judge a person’s worthiness to live here. If we really want to help refugees, we need to boost the number we take, not incite desperate people into a death race.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so Labor should be bloody well clapped on the back for doubling Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 while at the same time making sure <b>boat</b> turn-backs remain a red flag to the sociopathic scum who prey on naive and broken people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It might not be the whole answer but it’s 14,000 extra lives potentially saved — each of them actual human beings who are no less real and no less worthy just because the Greens haven’t seen footage of them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And they won’t have to leave their families, they won’t have to drown and they won’t have to pay the people smugglers a goddamn thing.IF YOU’D LIKE TO SEE JOE ADRIFT AT SEA, WATCH STUDIO 10 FROM 8.30AM WEEKDAYS ON CHANNEL 10</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Conference clarifies the new rulers of Labor Party</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Troy Bramston   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stephen Conroy, Kim Carr and ­Jamie Clements are key to Bill Shorten’s dominance as leader</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s 47th national conference revealed who runs the party in the wake of the Rudd-Gillard years.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Behind the scenes — away from the setpiece speeches, the factional theatre and the tedium of some debates — Bill Shorten cleverly stitched together an alliance that delivered him victory on the key issues that could otherwise have derailed his campaign for the prime ministership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I reckon I understand this party better than most,” Shorten said to colleagues on the weekend. “I understand it better than Kevin, better than Julia and, I think, better than Kim. I know this party.” He knows that leaders always need allies to succeed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are principally three men who helped Shorten prevail: Victorian Labor senator Stephen Conroy, who carries the Victorian Right; Victorian Labor senator Kim Carr, who dominates the Left in that state and is influential throughout the national Left; and NSW Labor secretary Jamie ­Clements, who just took over as national convener of the Right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Through these three men, and the friendships and deals they have individually brokered throughout the party, Shorten is able to dominate. However, political alliances can be difficult to sustain. They could fracture in one argument. For now, they hold.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As long as I’ve got Conroy, Carr and Clements,” Shorten said during the conference, “I’m fine.” Shorten’s future, while ultimately dependent on his electoral success, is inexorably tied up with his relationship with these men. Together, they control the levers of power inside the Labor Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conroy, 52, has been a senator since 1996. As a minister in the Rudd-Gillard government, he courted controversy. But he is widely liked in the parliamentary party. He was one of Julia Gillard’s most ardent supporters and relished putting the knife into Kevin Rudd in 2010.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conroy forged a bond with Shorten some years ago, their grouping dubbed the ShortCons, but officially Centre Unity. Shorten is close to Ben Davis (<span class="companylink">Australian Workers Union</span>, Victoria) and Conroy has allies in the Transport Workers Union. Shorten ensured Conroy and Carr secured new six-year Senate terms last year, well ahead of the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carr, 60, a senator since 1993, is locked-in to Shorten’s leadership. His Socialist Left group is more interested in winning elections than fighting the Right. They are pragmatic. Crucially, Carr, along with half a dozen others, is believed to have voted for Shorten over Anthony Albanese in the leadership ballot in October 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carr is close to Luba Grigorovitch (Rail, Train and Bus Union, Victoria), and parts of the Australian Manufacturing Work­ers Union and <span class="companylink">Australian Services Union</span> in Victoria. One of his key relationships is with Michael O’Connor (<span class="companylink">Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union</span>, national), one of the national Left union conveners, and Michael Ravbar (CFMEU, Queensland).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another key operative is Victorian Labor assistant secretary Kosmos Samaras. Carr helped build a coalition in the balkanised national Left that isolated the NSW Left. He is influential in the parliamentary party and sits on the party’s national executive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clements, 39, became NSW Labor secretary in 2013. He gets on well with Conroy and Carr. His closest alliances are with Gerard Dwyer (Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association, national) and Russ Collison (AWU, NSW) — both on the party’s national executive. Clements previously worked for the AWU. The powerful SDA split from the Right in Victoria but remains locked-in to the national Right. Clements and Conroy hold the national Right together.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since taking the helm of the party’s biggest branch, Clements has drawn the unions closer and promoted women into parliament and the party organisation. He ensured Luke Foley, a left-winger, became NSW Labor leader earlier this year. He strongly backed Shorten as leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clements, like Conroy and Carr, was re-elected to the party’s hugely influential national executive last Saturday. Labor’s national conference, held over three days in Melbourne last weekend, was the setting for these powerbrokers to strut their stuff. On the conference floor, in smaller side rooms and on the phone, Conroy, Carr and Clements worked the numbers for Shorten. They are his praetorian guard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conference was a test of Shorten’s leadership. On any number of issues — <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks, same-sex marriage, Palestine, the China free trade agreement, climate change, internal party reform and the fate of Labor’s socialist objective — he faced possible defeat. Breakthroughs or compromises were reached on each of these issues — and some voters may not share the party’s view on them — but Shorten did not leave the conference with his position rejected on any issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On what mattered most, turn-backs, Shorten had a big victory. This cannot be understated. It is unimaginable that a Labor conference just a few years ago would have supported turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, he prevailed despite a concerted push by Albanese to roll him. Albanese tried to rally the national Left but failed. He voted for the motion opposing turnbacks, the only shadow minister to do so, and failed again. It was a direct challenge to Shorten and everybody knew it. Albanese left Melbourne a diminished figure, his authority weakened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of the commentary in the lead-up to the conference focused on the fact that the 397 delegates — elected mainly by state party conferences — were almost evenly divided between Right and Left, with a gaggle of independents in the middle. This gave the Left an opportunity to gain the upper hand for the first time since the late 1970s and early 80s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this was always a flawed analysis because the national Left is bitterly divided. It lacks leaders like former ALP senator John Faulkner and ACTU secretary Greg Combet, who could unite disparate ­sub-factions and negotiate effectively with the Right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The dress rehearsal for the Left’s spectacular failure to unite at the conference was the contest for the ALP national presidency a few months ago. Albanese masterminded Mark Butler’s campaign. Albanese and Butler are very close. Butler won with 30.9 per cent of the vote of party members. But it came at a cost to their standing in the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The majority Left factions in Victoria and Queensland refused to accept being shoehorned into supporting Butler and instead backed Victorian state minister Jane Garrett. She was re-elected national vice-president.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carr was on the conference floor when the vote on the motion opposing turnbacks was moved by Victorian MP Andrew Giles. Carr did not vote for it. He was backing Shorten’s position. These numbers were not marshalled on the floor; they were worked on for weeks in advance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A number of Left MPs, party officials and unions voted with the Right on turnbacks. Shorten’s personal relations with union leaders was also very important in delivering this outcome. Gary Bullock, the Queensland secretary of <span class="companylink">United Voice</span>, who led the Left takeover of the Queensland Labor Party, provided support to Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahead of the conference, Shorten announced his support for a new target of women holding 50 per cent of the party’s parliamentary seats by 2025. Shorten spoke to Conroy and Clements via a phone hook-up a week out from conference. He made the case and, after some discussion, they agreed. This is how such deals are done.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clements engineered the only significant step taken on party reform. He forged an alliance with the small independent group led by Eric Dearricott to let party members directly elect one delegate to conference from each federal seat. It needed a minimum of 199 votes to succeed — the precise vote secured. This was opposed by almost all of the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tim Ayres, the NSW secretary of the AMWU, emerged as the new leader in the NSW Left on the national stage. He is close to Albanese. But he lost on almost every power play he launched. Despite the numbers being worked for months to give unions a 50 per cent say in Senate preselections and in the election of conference delegates, this was opposed throughout the Left and Right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The parliamentary leadership also remains significant. Shorten was able to overturn the Left’s decision to oppose a conscience vote on same-sex marriage by negotiating with Albanese, Tanya Plibersek and Penny Wong, from the Left, and Clements, Dwyer, former senator Don Farrell and Joe de Bruyn (SDA national president) from the Right. A conscience vote for MPs will remain in place for this term of parliament and the next.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten went into the conference knowing he had to accommodate other interests in return for support on critical issues. The CFMEU won job guarantees in the China free trade agreement. The <span class="companylink">Maritime Union of Australia</span> succeeded in having former ACTU president Martin Ferguson condemned for supporting electricity privatisation. Carr got a review of the socialist objective, not its ­immediate abolition.Navigating the byzantine world of internal Labor politics, especially as the factional system has become increasingly bifurcated, is not easy. Yet Shorten, with the aid of Conroy, Clements and Carr, plus several union leaders, emerged from conference with his leadership strengthened. They are the new rulers of the Labor Party.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Left-wing unions put self-interest before the good of the country</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year, a <span class="companylink">BBC</span> correspondent, Nick Bryant, published a book at the end of his Australian assignment — The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a Great Nation Lost its Way. He concluded the world’s most successful economy was being wrecked by cowboy politics fuelled by six changes of leader among the two dominant parties within seven years. If he were still in Sydney the recent diktat by left-wing unions to the Labor Party to pull apart the free trade agreement with China would probably impel him to add another chapter.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ACTU objects to the FTA. It claims China can bring in its own low-cost workforces for large investment contracts, stealing jobs from Australian workers. It also says the FTA will allow “unfair ­imports” (whatever they are) and cost 158,000 jobs, without saying how. On the eve of the Labor Party conference, Bill Shorten says he wants a <b>refugee boat</b> turnback policy. Labor Party pundits observe he needs support from Left unions to carry that. Before the conference, Shorten announces Labor opposes the China FTA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A leading left-wing union (the <span class="companylink">Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union</span>) then lets loose on what’s wrong with the FTA. The party congress approves Shorten’s <b>refugee</b> policy. Then the CFMEU claims polling results show Labor will lose seats in South Australia because of the China FTA. South Australia? Can it be coincidence that a few months earlier the left-wing <span class="companylink">Australian Manufacturing Workers Union</span> warned the government it would lose South Australian seats unless the new fleet of submarines was built there (by its members is what it meant).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is it feasible an FTA agreement with a nation that has bought billions of dollars’ worth of product from Australian businesses, creating in the process new, higher-paying jobs (for members of one of the leading left-wing ­unions), can be held to parliamentary ransom until the government agrees to build a fleet of submarines that members of another union will work on? Yes. When the other union is bleeding members because of the closure of auto plants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is just the sort of politicking of which Bryant ­despaired. Regrettably, we Australians are coming to see this as business as usual. Let’s hope not. There is a growing concern, even inside the Labor Party, about the way these unions call the shots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Let’s put this into context. The union opposition has been pretty casual. There are no national strikes and no lockdowns. This is the way policy is formed in today’s Labor Party. Has the ACTU got a case? Let’s look at what this FTA delivers for Australia, including for the 12 per cent of the national workforce these unions cover.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has never had a more beneficial trading partner than China. Japan runs close. Most Australians are unaware we are one of Japan’s primary sources of energy. Japanese resources companies invested heavily in Australian energy companies to supply fuel (coal and gas) to Japan. This created Australia’s second resources boom (the first being the gold rushes in the 19th century).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">China’s appetite for coal and iron ore recharged the Australian economy last decade, generating huge gains for everybody — investors, government and employees. The numbers tell the story. Take steel as an example. In 2000, China produced 200 million tonnes, a quarter of global production. By last year, Chinese production had risen to one billion tonnes, more than half of global production. The benefits to Australia were direct. The workforce in the Pilbara, where most iron ore is mined, jumped from 10,000 in 2000 to 50,000 in 2014. Union workers rode that tide. Payouts amounted to $45 billion. There might be a downturn today in iron ore demand, but Port Jackson Partners estimates revenue for iron ore producers will increase from $450bn last decade to $800bn next decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The picture is similar with coal. Exports in 2004 earned nearly $11bn. Chinese demand pushed it up to $40bn 10 years later. Wages and salaries rose from nearly $2bn to $6bn in the same period. Jobs, direct and indirect, generated by coalmining increased from 61,000 to 111,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What was the leading driver of all this? China’s growth. It is slowing down, but the FTA offers new opportunities. As Tony Abbott pointed out this week to the Boao Financial Services Forum, China’s commitments to remove remaining small tariffs on mineral imports will reduce the costs of our mineral exports to China by $600 million over four years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the huge economic benefits Australia has already secured from trading with China, the opportunity to get more from a free trade agreement is a no-brainer. China has recognised it needs to energise its services markets. If it doesn’t get more productive, China’s growth will slow. It elected to use the FTA with Australia to test the impacts and benefits of ­allowing foreign (Australian) businesses to set up in China. This offers unprecedented opportunities for Australian businesses providing finance, health, aged-care and education services to set up shop in China. Our companies had better be quick. Others will be given the same opportunity in time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This exposes the hollowness of the old shibboleth that free trade agreements result in the export of jobs offshore. Recent analysis by the <span class="companylink">OECD</span> and leading economic think tanks in the US shows businesses that establish subsidiaries in foreign economies not only get the benefit of financial returns from the foreign business but actually increase the number of ­people they employ in the home market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And then there is agriculture. Australian government trade negotiators have battled for years to win better access for agricultural products in foreign markets. While most industrialised economies happily cut barriers to trade in goods, their farm lobbies continue to pressure them not to open food markets. That was China’s position when it joined the <span class="companylink">WTO</span> in 2001.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the explosion of China’s middle class has meant China has to import food. It can’t meet demand. On this, China’s agricultural officials have been as protectionist, obdurate and ­inwardly focused as our left-wing unions. They too are being overlooked. The Chinese government is opening its food markets and creating opportunities for expansion by our food producers that the current generation of farmers have not before experienced. The deal to import $1bn worth of live cattle shows the effect. It compensates for the on-again, off-again import restrictions on live cattle imposed by Indonesian authorities. It portends removals of restrictions on other food imports. Australian farmers need to act swiftly to capitalise on this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The best complaint the ACTU can bring against the FTA is the tosh Chinese investors will flatten job opportunities by bringing in Chinese workers on investment projects worth more than $150m. The government has explained at painful length the conditions to be ­satisfied. All the union position does is advance the closed-shop model. The imported workers aren’t paid less; the union objection in fact is they are not members. And “union action” to date is rhetorical. Unions have not called on members to rise up, they have instead resorted to TV and social media, slipping 30-second adverts into MasterChef. They are out of date. While for many years opinion polls showed most Australians were sceptical about free trade, this has changed. Pew surveys show 86 per cent of Australians are comfortable with foreign trade (they relish purchasing imported goods via <span class="companylink">eBay</span> and direct from foreign producers), and over the recent decade have become much more comfortable about China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was no public outcry when the government decided to stop subsidising the manufacture of Holdens, Falcons and Camrys. Falling sales showed consumers preferred something else. On manufacturing, the economic fact is it is not a major employer any more in any advanced economy. Contrary to utterances from the AMWU, manufacturing is not dead in Australia. We have a hi-tech, high-value, high-wage manufacturing sector; but it is not a mass employer and does not want to be dictated to by unions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jay Weatherill, the Labor Premier of South Australia, where job losses in auto manufacturing hit hardest, sees the upside and has welcomed the China FTA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The gains from China’s demand for minerals have spread throughout the economy. Other sectors have expanded — finance, education, medical treatment, tourism, construction, telecommunications and public services, for example. With the high levels of production and large profits that come with it, we continued our world record run of the longest period of uninterrupted growth by any Western economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor should we ignore the imports from China. Union leaders sneer at cheap Chinese goods. Consumers love them. The idea of cheaper shoes next Christmas as tariffs fall causes excitement in one consumer community. Then there are the benefits for those in the tourist and education sectors. Simon Birmingham, the parliamentary secretary for education, a South Australian, recently pointed out there are 93,000 Chinese students in Australia, 38 per cent of the total number of foreign students. Spending by foreign students — on everything from tuition to housing to ­bicycles — is a de facto export. This will expand under the FTA. Another 77 educational institutions will be added to the existing 105 institutions on Chinese websites used to choose destinations for overseas studies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally there is tourism. In November last year, <span class="companylink">Tourism Australia</span> reported China remains Australia’s highest valued market with total visitor spend at a record level of $5.3bn, followed by the UK at $3.5bn and the US at $2.6bn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This free trade agreement covers a bigger area of trade than any other China has negotiated. This is a clear indication China is moving to liberalise its economy further. It has signalled it is keen to be part of a wider free trade agreement extending to all 24 members of <span class="companylink">APEC</span>. This is a long-term ambition, but suggests the development of the biggest free trade agreement in the world. The market opportunities for Australian businesses will be immense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the realisation of the Asian engagement Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd envisaged with their Asian Century program, which Gough Whitlam hoped for when establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing and Bob Hawke foresaw when he initiated the establishment of <span class="companylink">APEC</span>. This was world-class diplomacy from the Labor Party whose affiliated unions in those days enjoyed none of the benefits free trade has subsequently delivered to Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This optimism about the benefits to Australia of close commercial relations with China appears to have been snuffed out in union wings of the Labor Party. That was not always the case. Simon Crean and Martin Ferguson understood the benefits of free trade, as does Penny Wong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten appears to have met demands from left-wing unions to oppose the FTA in return for supporting his new turnback policy on <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The unions, mostly leftist, appear in turn to consider the huge economic benefits the FTA can deliver to Australia less important than advancing union interests — advancing closed shops for big Chinese projects and trying to secure commitments for a defence project to boost the membership numbers of a fading manufacturing union.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the real epilogue to Bryant’s book.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For two decades there appeared to be common ground between the main parties that trade policy opened markets and built growth, jobs and prosperity. But it appears the disease of political irresponsibility and short-term advantage about which Bryant so aptly warns is still virulent in Parliament House and is putting what has been the world’s most successful state at risk.Alan Oxley is principal of ITS Global and chairman of the APEC Centre at <span class="companylink">RMIT University</span>, Melbourne.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics The battlelines have been drawn. Tax reform, superannuation, climate change and refugees are the hot-button issues Labor and the Liberals will fight over to win the next term in power, writes Fleur Anderson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15 per cent</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We need revenue, I know it's not popular, but the best way of dealing with it that I see is to increase the GST ... and put all the dollars raised into health. NSW Premier Mike Baird on the need to raise the GST to 15pc. From his July 19 <span class="companylink">YouTube</span> address.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Tony Abbott could take a GST increase to the next election but only if there are major shifts in the position of Australia's political leaders between now and 2016.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When NSW Premier Mike Baird proposed a 15 per cent GST earlier this month as a salve for the states' health funding ills, it put him at odds with some of his Coalition colleagues and, of course, some of the Labor Premiers whose kneejerk response echoes that of their federal counterpart Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Commonwealth has already withheld $80 billion in health and education funding. Baird says health funding will be short by $35 billion a year by 2030, without a change to the consumption tax and Australia would be in danger of "tumbling over a fiscal cliff".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Queensland's Annastacia Palaszczuk, with the backing of ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, prefer raising the 2 per cent Medicare levy to 4 per cent over eight years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would effectively raise personal income tax rates at a time when the rest of the developed world is shifting away from incentive-destroying income taxes to less economically harmful consumption taxes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott has warned the GST should not be just for raising revenue but be part of a broader tax reform process, including getting rid of the some of the states' own inefficient taxes and associated tax revenues to which they remain addicted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Prime Minister has softened his previous approach demanding any change to the GST would require the support of all the states and the federal opposition. Now "something approaching a consensus" could be enough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">15 per cent</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is always delighted to fight an election on superannuation, one of our proudest creations.Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen on Labor's plan to tax super earnings over $75,000 at 15pc</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's the generation-dividing argument that will dog the next federal election. Which Australians are needy enough to require taxpayer support to save and survive in retirement?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition and the Greens argue the pension system is unsustainable, but Labor argues it is the superannuation system that needs to be fixed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has taken a gamble in suggesting the tax advantages of the superannuation system, the invention of its own hero Paul Keating, needs to be reined in to stop those with millions in their super funds from paying no tax on their earnings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Treasurer Joe Hockey, in contrast, says the government will make no changes to super this parliamentary term or next.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, the Coalition is focused on the "millionaire pensioners" and has made a deal with the Greens to start lowering the asset thresholds at which the part-pension cuts out - from $1.5 million, excluding the family home for couples, to $820,000 but not until July 1, 2017. It would save the budget a hefty $2.4 billion once introduced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor says the tax-free status of super earnings is disproportionately beneficial to high-income earners and is unsustainable. Instead anyone earning more than $75,000 a year from their super fund would have to pay 15 per cent tax on any extra income from 2017. It would affect about 60,000 superannuation account holders with balances in excess of $1.5 million and has the support from many in the financial services industry, including Brad Cooper, the head of <span class="companylink">Westpac</span>'s wealth business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As The <span class="companylink">Australian Financial</span> Review revealed on Friday, Cooper, the head of <span class="companylink">BT Financial Group</span>, says retirees should start paying income tax on annual super earnings of more than $150,000 to ensure the system is sustainable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">50 per cent</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We know renewable energy will be part of the industrial and jobs base as well as a worthy environmental goal.Labor environment spokesman Mark Butler on the party's goal of 50pc renewables</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Climate</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When news leaked that Labor was considering options for a new emissions trading scheme a week before the party's high-stakes national conference, tabloid newspapers labelled Bill Shorten a "carbon tax zombie". Party insiders talked of a deliberate plan to destabilise another Labor leader through the contentious issue of climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Shorten did say that if elected he would announce a new low-cost emissions trading scheme dealing in international permits to accompany a massive boost in renewable energy, there remains ambiguity about just how committed some in Labor are to the party's 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030. Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon described it as an "aspiration", not a policy. Shadow environment minister Mark Butler described Labor as having "an open mind" about lifting the share of renewable energy from 23.5 per cent in 2020 under current laws, which demands electricity retailers buy renewable energy or pay a fine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, the Coalition has stuck with its Direct Action plan - a reverse auction where the government buys back carbon at the lowest price through planting trees, capturing gas from landfill and supporting energy efficiency. And is yet to announce its post-2020 target for the Paris climate talks in December.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott has also been under fire for ordering the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to stop putting funds into wind power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The great unknown is whether voters' attitudes have changed since the 2013 election. Will the Coalition be seen as being so out of step that the electorate is willing to risk a Shorten government's ambitious 50 per cent target?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">27 thousand</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should never tolerate the exploitation of vulnerable people. But we must never allow people smugglers to take advantage of a perceived weakness.Labor Leader Bill Shorten on raising the <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 from 15,00.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's been a tough learning curve for Labor. The Coalition's hardline <b>boat</b> turnback policy has indeed "stopped the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After an hour-long emotional debate at the national conference, Labor has shifted its position on the loaded <b>asylum</b>-seeker issue in a move that the party's pragmatists hope will neutralise Coalition attacks come election time as well as potentially minimise the devastating loss of life that occurred under Labor's old policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In government, Labor would leave open the option of turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats in the Java Sea where it was safe to do so. It's an acknowledgment that turnbacks do save lives, but it has also tested the unity of the party with the left wing still bruised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In order to win over the Left, Shorten has promised a Labor government would give $450 million to the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> to help provide health and education services to <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor would also mirror the Coalition's proposed <b>refugee</b> intake from 13,750 to 18,750 by 2018, then raising it further to 27,000 a year by 2025 at an extra cost of $1.9 billion over a decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There's still room for the Coalition to run an election campaign against Labor on immigration and border control. It has already said the party that presided over the death of so many at sea cannot be trusted on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will also be able to exploit the unhappiness of Deputy Leader Tanya Plibersek and others on the Left over the policy change, giving the Coalition opportunity for mischief making about future leadership spills and policy reversals. Also, Tony Abbott has consistently scored highly in polls on the broader issue of security control.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Listen to all sides before vote</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>561 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pleasing to note that Barbara Cattunar acknowledges the relative efficacy and integrity of a plebiscite over polls (Your Say, July 16). However, Barbara goes on to make another point from the same poll with respect to a conscience vote. I am unaware that all federal parliamentarians were given a mandate from the electorate on this redefinition of marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there is an attempt to make a case by selectively drawing out comments by various politicians. Case for case Barbara espouses opinion over knowledge and the understanding of consequent outcomes.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Polls and opinion surveys are pre-modern methodology that falsely assume knowledge and understanding of the arguments. Therefore they should not be the basis of decision making from small samples no matter how rigorous the statical analysis. A post-modern democratic society has to progress to equity and justice through knowledge of all sides of a debate and then vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The electoral cycle appears to be an equitable and just turnaround period. That would appear to defuse the power of the lobbyists and put decision making on a relatively more democratic basis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ray Robinson, Corrimal</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Keep employment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Response to the front page article, "Shut it down" Mercury, Thursday, July 23, 2015. Regardless of the environmental concerns, there is a far more serious question that needs to be asked!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the article <span class="companylink">Wollongong Coal</span> cut 41 jobs in May and is set to cut a further 70 jobs this month. However, the article also confirms that <span class="companylink">Wollongong Coal</span> are awaiting approval to expand its operations at Russell Vale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So why are workers being axed from their employment when the coal company is expanding? This just does not make any sense, not to mention the hardship placed on these workers to find alternative employment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Wollongong Coal</span> should consider keeping workers, rather than expanding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boats and bribery</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In reply to Adrian Devlin (Your Say, July 21) I didn't lodge submissions to the <span class="companylink">International Criminal Court</span> regarding abuse to <b>asylum</b> seekers, in particular sexual abuse to women and children. If you wish to be a protector of thuggery, murder, rape, torture and fraud then I suggest that you take the matter up with migration lawyer, Tracy Aylmer, Independent MP Mr Andrew Wilkie and Mr Julian Burnside QC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A few points, firstly, the boats haven't stopped. How many people smugglers has Dutton paid bribes to "turn back" to Indonesia? It is not known. An Indonesian security spokesman said that Abbott's actions could be interpreted as endorsing bribery and encouraging people smuggling. Last month the same <b>boat</b> was intercepted three times. As for towing boats back "when it's safe to do so", how many have been transferred to an inferior <b>boat</b> with insufficient fuel before crashing on a reef near an Indonesian island as happened to 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers on their way to New Zealand? The recommended daily intake of drinking water in the tropics is five litres. To get two cups of water a detainee must queue, sometimes for hours in temperatures above 35 degrees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don Kelly, Kanahooka</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hard times ahead</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just when chairman Tony gets his comrades Malcolm and Barnaby to toe the party line Madam Bronwyn gets involved in controversy (witch hunt?). Looks like dictatorship was never meant to be easy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bob Fulton, Darkes Forest</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROSEMARIE MILSOM  rmilsom@fairfaxmedia.com.au  twitter@RosemarieMilsom   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">opinion OUR SAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THIS week I observed a seemingly endless display of appalling behaviour known as victim blaming.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New York magazine, arguably one of the best in the world, jolted readers at the weekend with its dramatic cover story featuring 35 women who were allegedly sexually abused by comedian Bill Cosby. The powerful image of the individual women seated in rows captured headlines around the world and, while the women were praised for their courage, they were also condemned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I followed a number of social media threads in which mostly male critics slammed some of the women for accepting "bribes" from Cosby in the past. Blame was levelled at these women who were accused of enabling subsequent assaults because they accepted a settlement rather than heading to court. The critics overlooked the complex legal obstacles in the women's way and the power of an idolised TV star with widespread influence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was black academic and media commentator Marc Lamont Hill who skewered the absurd logic of the victim-blaming pack: "Needing Cosby to admit he's guilty before we believe it. If that's the standard, almost no one would be guilty of rape."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Tuesday night we were introduced to the bleach-haired Kim Vuga whose heartlessness and ignorance prompted outrage among viewers of the SBS series, Go Back to Where You Came From. She had no hesitation in singling out <b>asylum</b> seekers and blaming them for the "Muslim takeover" of Australia. She also labelled <b>asylum</b> seekers "queue jumpers" and argued they should be charged with child abuse if they board a <b>boat</b> with their families in an attempt to reach Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There she sat at the dining table of Palestinian <b>refugee</b> Ammar Mershed and questioned his history, which includes being "stateless" in Iraq. "I don't believe that people are stateless because everyone comes from somewhere," she observed. Her dismissal of his traumatic history, which included boarding a <b>boat</b> in Indonesia, brought the humble father of three to tears. It wasn't difficult to see the deep scars of a lifetime of persecution and insecurity beneath Mershed's proud demeanour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vuga's behaviour followed a day of harrowing revelations in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse during which it was revealed that a respected figure in a Queensland Jehovah's Witness congregation repeatedly abused his four daughters, even quoting the Bible during his crimes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After three trials, he was was convicted of multiple sexual offences and jailed for three years in 2004. "The trials were easy compared to what I had been through with the [church's] elders," one of the daughter's told the commission. "I couldn't bear the judgment of those around me, the public vilification and ostracism. I wanted to dig a hole and die."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one in the church believed her and they did not report the offences to police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And then we have Adam Goodes. Conservative radio personality Alan Jones went to town on the champion footballer after he withdrew from training citing the booing that dominated the Swans' game against the West Coast Eagles on the weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You know, the man is always a victim," he railed on Wednesday. "Then he became Australian of the Year and tells us that we're all racists. Every time he speaks, Australia is a racist nation."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The common thread in these examples is that the people at the centre of them have all endured a form of persecution. Crimes have been committed in some instances and one would think that this would make it easier to define the victim and provide the support that is essential to their recovery. This isn't the case. Consider the treatment of the sex-abuse victim by the Jehovah's Witness elders. Instead of offering support, they mocked her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victim blaming is a product of a cruel "pack mentality" and is often fuelled by social media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who is to say how Adam Goodes should react to an ongoing chorus of booing? How do you measure the cumulative toll of racist jibes and generations of abuse? Cosby's alleged victims were not believed and who are we to judge the damage that kind of powerlessness causes?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the ugly core of victim blaming is the absence of empathy and that is truly deserving of our condemnation.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Richard Marles says the forced return of migrant boats accords with ALP values</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Richard Marles, it has been a long and arduous journey to convince the Labor Party to confront its conflicted history on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, own its mistakes, and finally adopt the option of turning boats back to Indonesia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It obviously evokes a deep emotional reaction from our side of politics, and fair enough,” Labor’s immigration spokesman is quick to acknowledge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But trying to get that reaction in a way which can be married up with reason to get the right policy is extremely difficult, and that’s the baggage we have been trying to work through.” In encouraging Labor to admit it has not always been on the right side of history on border protection, Marles had to front up to more meetings than he cares to count to deliver a message “people do not want to hear”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There have been plenty of meetings which probably haven’t been that good for my mental health in terms of the aftermath, where obviously people are queuing up to metaphorically punch you on the nose,” Marles tells The Australian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are the only ones with the knowledge. We get the briefings which our branch members don’t. Surely part of what leadership is about is having the courage to actually convey that information and talk about it and try and express why it brings you to a particular point of view.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve been able to do that and get to a place which is the right place knowing all the difficult emotions and baggage that people very legitimately have had to work through in order to get there, and I think it is really important for Labor going forward.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It has transformed, I hope, this debate for us,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The destination for Labor, endorsed by delegates to the ALP’s national conference on Saturday afternoon after an hour-long emotionally draining and gut-wrenching debate, represents a significant policy shift and changes the goalposts of the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In government, Labor would have the option of turning back boats in the Java Sea where safe to do so. By changing its party platform, its policy blueprint for government, Labor has acknowledged its previous opposition to the Coalition’s policy was wrong and turnbacks save lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since Dec­ember 2013, there have been about 14 turnbacks and no deaths at sea. Marles implored party members not to be guilty of allowing the perilous sea journeys from Java to Christmas Island to restart, knowing now what the party does.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said if Labor put people-smugglers back into business, the inevitable consequence would be a “huge loss of life”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Because if we do, you can forget about any future Labor government being remembered for anything else. We will simply be condemned by history,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The hardline deterrent of turning boats around — which imitates the border protection measure in place under Tony Abbott — would be in concert with Labor’s policy of repositioning Australia as a regional leader on refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a carrot-and-stick approach to <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy; part of a package of negotiated concessions. It gives Labor’s Left some comfort, even if it reviles <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia, Marles says, wants to have the biggest impact it can on “reducing the sum of global human misery”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor would dedicate $450 million over the forward estimates to the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span> , making Australia the fifth largest donor to the body. The money would include supporting the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> in providing health and education services to <b>asylum</b>-seekers and advocating for work rights for <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Bill Shorten government also would increase Australia’s <b>refugee</b> humanitarian intake across a decade to 27,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor would mirror the increase in the intake already promised by the Coalition, which raises the number of refugees from 13,750 to 18,750 by 2018, and then ramp it up to 27,000 people a year by 2025. It would cost an extra $1.9 billion across 10 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The party also would restore references to the <b>Refugee</b> Convention in Australia’s Migration Act, and bring in independent oversight of the offshore processing centres in Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor would abolish the Howard-era temporary protection visas, which were resurrected last year to process the backlog of <b>refugee</b> claims. Instead, Labor would give those who are already in Australia — the queue of people who arrived under Labor before it reopened Nauru and Manus Island — and found to be genuine refugees, a “permanent Australian visa’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy U-turn on <b>boat</b> turnbacks neutralises the political effectiveness of the Coalition’s big-picture attack on Labor for being soft on Australia’s borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are still differences between the Coalition and Labor, but the headline argument that Labor doesn’t support <b>boat</b> turnbacks is dented.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It leaves the Coalition to question — quite rightly — whether Labor really would turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Would Shorten have Abbott’s resolve or is the policy shift mere political expediency?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What would happen if Labor’s deputy leader Tanya Plibersek — who gave her vote to a proxy on the conference floor — were in charge?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hailing from Geelong, Marles speaks in a considered, measured tone. He is good at mounting an argument; and his time as a lawyer, trade union official and ACTU assistant secretary schooled him in the art of persistence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he has yet to master the sound bite; or the catchy, pithy one-liners that opponents such as Scott Morrison used to such devastating effect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Morrison, the formidable former immigration minister, began unleashing his considerable arsenal of political weaponry on Monday on Marles, as the Coalition signalled the start of a campaign to tear Labor’s policy conversation apart at the seams.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Oh look, it is a joke,” Morrison told 2GB radio presenter Ray Hadley — and his legion of western Sydney listeners — during their regular Monday morning fireside chat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is a very bad karaoke version of the Coalition’s policy; I mean it doesn’t even approach it. It can’t be an option; it has to be the option and the big difference between the Coalition and the Labor Party on this is — this is I think their 12th position on this issue, we have had the same position over exactly the same time and it has been the position that has actually worked.” Morrison, who co-authored the Coalition’s quasi-military Operation Sovereign Borders policy with retired major general Jim Molan, said the government was able to stop the boats because he had the support of the Prime Minister, the cabinet and the partyroom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“All of us of one mind and of one resolve to stop the boats. Bill Shorten doesn’t even have his deputy leader (Plibersek) and Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong; that is at least three members of his would-be cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So if he can’t keep his own cabinet together on this in the opposition how on earth would he implement a policy like this when the bellows come from his backbench and the ABC and Fairfax and everyone else? I mean. for goodness sake, it is a hopeless joke.” In nudging Labor down the path to what Marles describes as the “right place” on border protection, he set out to ensure the debate was being argued on Labor’s terms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It seemed to me the starting point was really a need to recast this as being based on values, what are values that resonate with us on this issue — fairness, compassion, generosity,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since the Tampa <b>asylum</b>-seeker standoff in 2001, Labor has grappled with <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Kevin Rudd ’s victory in 2007 and the subsequent dismantling of John Howard’s Pacific Solution opened the floodgates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Labor left office six years later, helped out the door by Abbott’s stop-the-boats mantra, more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers had arrived in Australia via perilous sea journeys on fishing vessels, overwhelming the detention network and adding billions to the budget.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least 1200 people lost their lives at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are few issues more representative of the dilemma modern Labor faces as it fights to retain its support base. On <b>asylum</b>-seekers, the ALP is outflanked on the Right by the Coalition and risks leaking numbers to the Greens on the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marles, who inherited the immigration portfolio for Labor in opposition, tells The Australian he knew immediately that the party needed to confront <b>refugee</b> policy, including the issue of turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The starting point, I reckon, is there is a lot of baggage which has been carried into this debate across all sides of politics; but we are not immune from this and a lot of baggage since 2001,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marles argues the issue of Tampa fractured bipartisanship on <b>refugee</b> policy in Australia, and Labor’s inability to articulate its position “fractured trust between the base and parliamentary leadership on this question’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s hard because it does mean that people have looked at people in these jobs, my predecessors, with a degree of suspicion from the base about whether or not all our motives are based on politics and what is going to win elections,’’ Marles says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After taking over the immigration portfolio in opposition, he set out to get a real sense of the journey between Java and Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He wanted a “crystal-clear and honest understanding of what had stopped that journey, and what is clear to me, and was clear pretty early on, is that two critical things had stopped that journey’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor points to the policy Rudd enacted after he snatched back the country’s leadership from Julia Gillard on the eve of the 2013 election, the regional resettlement arrangement. Rudd and then immigration minister Tony Burke resurrected offshore processing at Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Says Marles: “The policy was about taking Australia off the table — the principle of that has to be maintained.’’ He argues the flow of vessels turned to a trickle: “The trickle that was left still would have amounted to something like 5000 people a year, which would have very quickly overwhelmed both Manus and Nauru, and so something had to be done to absolutely turn that trickle off, and that’s actually what turnbacks are.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In circumstances where we do know that no one has died in the process of that since December 2013, it’s a pretty compelling fact. And it became clear to me there is no way you could rule that out as being one of the options that we would need to have at our disposal if we’re in government. If we are fair dinkum about keeping this journey shut and if you run our values, compassion, fairness and generosity, across the need to keep this journey shut, it is just completely clear.’’ In May last year, Marles spoke to the <span class="companylink">National Press Club</span> in Canberra and told Labor it needed to admit it was wrong to have dismantled the Pacific Solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five months later he told Sky News’s Australian Agenda, there was “no doubt’’ about the impact of the Coalition’s turnback policy and indicated it needed to be considered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next day The Australian asked Shorten a series of questions at a doorstop about his position on <b>boat</b> turnbacks. Back then, he hung Marles out to dry, slapping down his immigration spokesman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So you don’t think <b>boat</b> turnbacks have had any impact on stopping deaths at sea?’’ The Australian asked Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“No,’’ the Labor leader replied. “We don’t see that the argument’s been made or the evidence has been made out about <b>boat</b> turnbacks. Labor’s policy hasn’t changed.’’Ten months really is a long time in politics.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10 YEARS AGO</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b> AXE HITS TOURISM ISLANDS Dozens of Queensland islands including the Townsville suburb of Magnetic Island have been removed from the list of official Australian territories under changes to the migration zone. The changes, along with a detention centre to be built at Burpengary north of Brisbane, will place Queensland in the front line of the Federal Government’s campaign to dissuade <b>asylum</b>-seekers. <b>Boat</b> people will have to reach the mainland before claiming <b>refugee</b> status.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">40 YEARS AGOPOWER: TOUGHEST EVER NEW CLAMPS ON FROM MIDNIGHT Power supplies will be switched off to all but essential industry from midnight tonight in a drastic increase in power restrictions in south-east Queensland. The Mines and Energy Minister (Mr Camm) said last night “increased restrictions are definitely on”. Supply will be cut completely to all entertainment including picture theatres and dance halls, and lights will be banned for night trots and greyhounds. There will be no power for breweries, soft drink factories, and manufacturers of sweets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">100 YEARS AGO A PRISONER IN TURKEY TREATED AS WELL AS CAN BE EXPECTEDMalta. Lieutenant-Commander Stoker, of the Australian submarine AE2, who is a prisoner in Turkey, writes that he is being treated as well as can be expected. He is exercising daily with Anglo-French, Russian, and two Australian prisoners.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP now can’t be dismissed as weak on border protection</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The election of a Shorten Labor government will have a sure consequence — the arrival of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats from Indonesia within the first week, perhaps before the ministerial swearing-in. And those boats will be turned, as authorised ALP policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The turning of the initial boats, sent by people-smugglers to break the Labor government, must be quick and successful. Immigration spokesman Richard Marles, the force behind the new policy, has held a series of one-on-one talks with Labor’s frontbenchers. The shadow cabinet knows the drill — these boats will be turned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten will have the next year to put and persuade on this policy. Frankly, he needs to toughen the language. Saying it is an option won’t cut the mustard. The media will quiz him and Shorten must be direct — he will turn boats where safe to do so, the Abbott formula from the 2013 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The aim is to duplicate the Abbott government’s zero <b>boat</b> arrivals result. Labor knows this is an “all or nothing” issue. Once you let a few boats arrive, that weakness will induce an armada. Marles has built this policy assuming the combination of offshore process­ing — as implemented by the last Rudd government — and turning boats will together do the job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The immediate consequence is political. The purpose is to deny Tony Abbott the ability to destroy Labor during an election campaign on sovereign border protection. Shorten and Marles can now say: “We will turn the boats.” Some people may not believe them but this is now Labor’s intent, despite the internal reservations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his speech to the party’s national conference Marles spoke the truth, warning that if the ALP in office allows the <b>boat</b> trade to be re-established then “you can forget about any future Labor government being remembered for anything else”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He argues, correctly, that the false morality pervading this issue must not be allowed to ruin the next ALP government. It would be unforgivable for Labor, having ­allowed the <b>boat</b> trade to be re-­established the last time it was in office, to commit the same folly over again next time it is in office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, it would be worse. At least Kevin Rudd can claim he was naive in 2008 and 2009. That excuse no longer exists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will simply be condemned by history,” Marles told ALP delegates about voting down the turnback proposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The extent of this transformation is yet to be appreciated. Providing the position is implemented and works, it constitutes the moral basis for an ALP policy revolution that, since the Tampa in 2001, is one of the most agonising in Labor’s history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For most of this time <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy within Labor has been a contest between morality and realism. This is the reason the party tore itself apart. While this is the choice, there is no acceptable answer. The change began under Chris Bowen as minister, continued under Tony Burke and the circle is closed under Marles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is now apparent that a ­humanitarian policy depends on stopping <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats. This is the opposite of the moral position advanced for most of the years since Tampa when the Left, human rights lawyers and the churches asserted that allowing boats to arrive was the true moral position. That claim is untenable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Consigning people to the risk of drowning at the hands of a criminal network is not a moral position. It can never be a moral position. The message from ­Marles at the conference is that he will fight for Labor’s new policy on both moral and practical terms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That means challenging the churches, the Greens and the <b>refugee</b> lobbies that assert the opposite. And who first embraced this position? We all know: Abbott and Scott Morrison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This penetrates to the deeper strategy behind Marles’s policy. He seeks to build a new humanitarian position on the foundation of no <b>boat</b> arrivals. It involves increasing the annual humanitarian intake to 27,000 offshore, double current numbers. It means taking a leadership role in the region, given there are 300,000 registered refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers in Southeast Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It means greater funding for the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span> in the region and closer co-operation with it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The idea, in short, is that no <b>boat</b> arrivals gives Australia more scope and confidence in building regional arrangements, now an urgent need and a challenge for Southeast Asia. An exceptionally high 27,000 intake (criticised by the Abbott government as untenable) would more than demonstrate Australia’s credentials to the region and to the world. The reality of turning boats — central to the moral position — is that you only need to turn a few to terminate the product offered by the people-smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once this is established the moral argument is a no-brainer: taking 27,000 people in an ordered program as opposed to ongoing <b>boat</b> arrivals, overflowing offshore detention centres, incidents and human rights abuses in detention, and entrenched political disputes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is still early days, but the nation may be moving for the first time since Tampa to a shared cross-party position where there is a moral and policy foundation to terminate <b>boat</b> arrivals in the long term and build a better outward-looking Australian <b>asylum</b>-seeker stance. Such optimism, of course, may be undone by future events.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What distinguishes Labor’s new position, as devised by ­Marles, is the belief that the priority must be policy. By stopping the boats, Abbott’s success has destroyed the final vestiges of Labor’s political attack on this front. Nobody in Labor repeats Rudd’s desperate claim before the 2013 poll that Abbott’s turnbacks might provoke hostilities with ­Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its success means it now becomes Labor’s policy as well. Labor, of course, still seeks product discrimination from the Prime Minister — it pledges abolition of temporary protection visas, more independent scrutiny of offshore detention centres, no turning of boats from source as distinct from transition nations, and reinsertion of <b>Refugee</b> Convention provisions in the Migration Act, the latter a risky move if it empowers the judiciary to veto executive policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This poses the ultimate question for Labor: does it actually believe in the new policy? Marles does. But does Labor in its heart of hearts? The truth is that you must believe in turning boats with a ruthless conviction.Abbott and Morrison had that conviction. The question is whether this conviction exists in Labor’s DNA.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is finally on the right side of the debate. Watch the Coalition fumble now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Bill Shorten and Labor manage to win the next election, the ALP national conference at the weekend will be remembered as a turning point in their fortunes. Things have been far from fantastic for the Opposition Leader and Labor's triennial conference was a cluster bomb of tough issues threatening to blow up Shorten's leadership and the party's electoral prospects.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, Shorten has emerged with his leadership strengthened and Labor finds itself with a genuinely ambitious and saleable policy agenda to take to the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is often said that good politics follows good policy, but reality is rarely that simple. In the long term, good policy wins out, but in the short term, countless politicians go down advocating good policy. After its weekend conference, Labor finds itself on the right side of key policy and political debates that have dogged it for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On climate change, Labor has affirmed its commitment to a low-cost emissions trading scheme but has shifted the focus to renewables with a new goal of 50 per cent by 2030.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government, meanwhile, has positioned itself as anti-renewables.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In its anti-carbon tax fervour the Abbott government appears to have missed a major shift in community sentiment: nowadays more Australians support renewable energy than believe in God.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, Labor has spent years floundering to land a policy and hold its ground against the Coalition's hardline approach and relentless attacks. But the <b>asylum</b>-seeker and <b>refugee</b> debate at the ALP conference on Saturday was the best I have ever heard on this issue in any forum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also managed to reach the right result, with Labor's acceptance of the mostly symbolic Coalition policy on <b>boat</b> turn-backs meaning the debate about <b>boat</b> arrivals across the perilous sea route between Java and Christmas Island is effectively over.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor has opened a welcome front with its new policy to double Australia's annual <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000, the second largest quota of any country and the most generous <b>refugee</b> intake in the world on a per capita basis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is also the increased transparency in the regional resettlement program, the abolition of TPVs, the reinstatement of the UN <b>Refugee</b> Convention in the Migration Act, and $450 million in support for <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> to support a regional solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On marriage equality, Labor reaffirmed its support for same-sex marriage and has agreed its representatives will have a free vote for the remainder of this term and next, after which it will be binding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next step for Tony Abbott is obvious - let his party members have a free vote in the Parliament. But the political portents suggest the Coalition is going to mess it up with Abbott planning to "kick the can down the road" by deferring a party and parliamentary vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior Liberals are now suggesting Labor's new position on a binding vote will make the Prime Minister even less inclined to grant his MPs a free vote on marriage equality. Hard heads in the ALP will be saying "come in spinner". The Coalition will end up going to an election opposed to same-sex marriage when 72 per cent of Australians support it, while also unleashing against themselves one of the biggest grassroots campaigns the country is ever likely to see.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the fiscal front, the ALP conference reaffirmed Labor's commitment to cutting superannuation tax breaks, the fastest- growing expenditure item in the budget; properly taxing multinational profit shifting; and giving consideration to the Buffett Tax that requires a 35 per cent minimum income tax on the estimated 100,000 people who earn more than $300,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is likely to have public opinion on its side as ordinary PAYE taxpayers demand integrity in the tax system, which gives Labor a far more achievable pathway towards budget repair than anything on the table from the Abbott government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On each of these difficult issues Labor now finds itself on the right side of the debate, with public opinion either in its corner or heading in its direction. I would wager that the next big policy change on all of the above issues will come from the Coalition government, not from the Labor opposition. It begs the broader question: what is the Abbott government's agenda? Less than two years into its first term, the government does not appear to have a plan for the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The terrorism scare campaign is running out of puff. It has all but given up on budget repair and has next to nothing to say about where new jobs and investment will come from as the mining boom unwinds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The attacks on Bill Shorten will carry the Coalition only so far, provided the Opposition Leader can position himself as an an "acceptable" as opposed to "popular" alternative to an equally unpopular Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All of which suggests the Coalition needs to undertake its own cathartic exercise in policy renewal and refresh its political plans. They also need to remind themselves that if you stay still in politics, you get run over. What a difference a weekend makes.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>136 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’s plan to double the <b>refugee</b> intake as a trade-off for adopting <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks will cost taxpayers $1.9 billion over 10 years, it has been revealed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the ALP claims it will be offset by $14 billion in savings from its plan to make multinational companies pay more tax.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In costings revealed ­ex-clusively to The Advertiser, the move, which will increase the humanitarian intake to 27,000 a year from the current level of 13,750, puts a $1.9 billion price tag on implementing the <b>refugee</b> plan by 2025.The Government’s modelling of the policy also claims it will cost an extra $1.1 billion a year just to maintain when fully implemented. Shadow immigration minister Richard Marles accused the Government of making up numbers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020150728eb7t00038</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020150728eb7t0000y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICOLE JUDGE, KIM VUGA   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>903 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AS THE LABOR PARTY WRESTLES WITH TURNING BACK BOATS, WE ASK THE STARS OF A CERTAIN REALITY SHOW SHOULD <b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKERS …</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NO NICOLE JUDGE</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was working at <span class="companylink">JB Hi-Fi</span> and being a regular 22-year-old when I responded to an ad calling for workers for an “offshore mission” with the Salvation Army on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It timed perfectly with university holidays and was ­described as a “working holiday”. Three days later I landed in Nauru without the faintest idea of what I was in for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My life changed as soon as I entered the camp. I was in complete shock at the situation before me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fast forward one-and-a-half years. I have spent time in both Nauru and Manus Island and witnessed multiple suicide ­attempts, self-harm, guard brutality, racism, a riot, purposeful denial of basic needs, and an endless, unnecessary amount of human suffering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It had a profound impact on my life. I gave testimony at the Senate inquiry into the death of Manus detainee Reza Berati.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I believed that by giving evidence something would be done to shut down or, at the least, “improve the centres”. Neither happened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detainee Hamid Khezeai died months after the inquiry, after evidence was given about medical negligence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What did occur afterwards was a higher fence was built around the compound to prevent further attacks from outside threats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I recently took part in SBS’s Go Back To Where You Came From because I didn’t feel heard by our political leaders, and felt I had to continue working to inform the public about what is happening under the federal government’s hardline policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I understand we can’t help every single <b>refugee</b> but I ­believe Australia is capable of raising its intake, and of taking refugees from their source country, or nearest neighbour, cutting out the need for smugglers and <b>boat</b> deaths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By doing so Australia can close its offshore processing camps, which cost Australian taxpayers more than $1.2 billion a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A small fraction of the ­annual $1.2 billion bill can be better spent on services that help refugees integrate and understand their new country, leaving money for other services that would be better spent helping our community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For two years running Australia has been listed as a human rights offender and found to be in breach of the <span class="companylink">UN</span> convention against torture in our treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whether you agree with the statistics that the overwhelming majority of <b>boat</b> arrivals are genuine refugees or not, I would hope most Australians would disagree with inflicting a policy that goes out of its way to deliberately degrade and traumatise men, women, and children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YES KIM VUGA We must do everything possible to keep our country safe, and turning back the boats is crucial. After years of campaigning to Stop the Boats on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span>, I had the opportunity to test my beliefs by following a <b>refugee</b> journey in reverse — from Australia to war-torn Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My eyes were wide open as I witnessed many issues that could impact our nation’s safety. We visited Zaatari UNHCR <b>refugee</b> camp near the Syrian border in Jordan, home to about 80,000 refugees, 60,000 of them children. The camp is impressive: the <span class="companylink">UN</span> has created a functional township within two years. Conditions are good. Even our disadvantaged in Australia would have seen it as five-star accommodation with many services available.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It boasted a 3km strip of shops run and owned by refugees, including three bridal shops with exquisite wedding dresses for hire. I was shocked when told the wedding dresses were for child brides, some as young as 10. The legal age of marriage in Jordan is 18. Yet the <span class="companylink">UN</span> condones child marriages.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cultural differences were evident everywhere. Older boys terrorised younger girls by punching them in the head, pulling their hair and throwing stones, with no condemnation from the parents. I found the men and adolescents to be rude. They yelled obscenities, taunted and gathered in packs. I found the <span class="companylink">UN</span> to be hypocritical, as they pick and choose who they let over the border. They only accept Syrians, turning back Palestinian families. Those turned back were often picked up by the Free Syrian Army who would then give them false documents pretending they were Syrian. Do we ­really know who we are taking when we let in people from these camps? It is a risk I believe Australia cannot afford.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We then spent time with the Kurdish fighters on the Syrian front lines, which was the most emotional part of my journey. Had I not had any family in Australia, I would have stayed and fought alongside them. The Kurds are fighting for their freedom and democracy, the very same things we too have fought for in the past.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are not fleeing their country but rather staying ­behind to protect it and, I ­believe, helping stop potential terrorists coming to ours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My journey has strengthened my view Australia should walk away from the Refugees Convention. We need to vote to rid Australia of this curse and keep voting in governments that will protect our country from the threat of potentially aggressive persons detrimental to the safety of Australia.This is about what legacy we will leave for our children, grandchildren and generations to come.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>jbhifi : JB Hi-Fi Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i64 : Retail/Wholesale | i654 : Specialty Stores | i6540027 : Video/Compact Disc/Record Stores | iretail : Retail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | syria : Syria | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020150728eb7t0000y</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150728eb7t00001" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Television</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Further adventures on the turnback track</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GRAEME BLUNDELL   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>315 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PICK OF THE DAY Go Back to Where You Came From 8.30pm, SBS One</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The third season of this engrossing, socially experimental piece of television started last night when six carefully chosen Australians agreed to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These voluntary participants began to trace in reverse the journeys that so many despairing people have taken to reach Australia, travelling to some of the most desperate parts of the world, with no idea what is in store for them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The participants include a former <b>refugee</b> who escaped communist Vietnam at the age of eight, two sisters with opposing opinions (Jodi detests queue jumpers, Renee is a <b>refugee</b> support worker), a Nauru and Manus Island whistleblower, a tough-talking but annoyingly garrulous teacher, and a formidable “Stop the Boats” campaigner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After spending several days with the families of two <b>asylum</b>-seekers now settled in Australia to experience their stories along with their hospitality, they travelled to Indonesia, where they boarded a rickety fishing <b>boat</b> typically used by people-smugglers and headed for an unknown destination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tonight it gets even more dangerous when the Australians experience the government’s strict policy of <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They’re transferred from the people-smuggler’s <b>boat</b> to an orange lifeboat and sent back to Indonesia, where they live with <b>asylum</b>-seekers who have been turned back by the Australian navy. Then one group treks through the Thai jungle to discover how <b>asylum</b>-seekers are trafficked and sold into slavery, while the other group visits a <b>refugee</b> camp in the Jordanian desert that is home to more than 80,000.Like its predecessors, this third season is no simple fly-on-the-wall, spy-cam observational piece of cheapie TV but again turns the confessional-style reality series into a morally weighted piece of social history.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ntvrar : TV/Radio Reviews | gtvrad : Television/Radio | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfce : C&E Exclusion Filter | nrvw : Reviews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150728eb7t00001</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150728eb7t00021" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Canberra ALP split over <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Kirsten Lawson
Chief Assembly Reporter   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>343 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canberra ALP split over <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Kirsten Lawson Chief Assembly Reporter</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor members of the ACT Assembly split on turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats at the party's national conference on the weekend, with Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Joy Burch backing Bill Shorten's position on turnbacks, but Yvette Berry and Chris Bourke opposing the move. The party's Left faction put a motion to the conference to reject Mr Shorten's new policy of turning</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats. The Left was defeated, largely along factional lines. Ms Berry said it was a difficult issue, but she could not support turning back boats. "Yes, I was sorry that the Labor Party came to that decision and I will keep having conversations with people in my community, with unions, with sceptics, with the broader Labor movement to encourage change," she said. "The biggest challenge that people face across the country</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">right now is job security. It's not refugees that are taking that work, it's the government policies that need to change. It's that fear and division that's being spread by the federal government that we need to overcome and that's by providing people with more security in their work." The ACT had seven delegates at the conference, three unionists and the four Assembly members. Ms Berry is from the party's Left, and Mr Bourke is unaligned. Mr Barr and Ms Burch are from the right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Barr supported Mr Shorten on turning back boats last week (his vote was made by a proxy), saying the policy avoided deaths at sea, avoided encouraging people smugglers and was balanced with a big increase in the planned <b>refugee</b> intake. Canberra senator Katy Gallagher was not a delegate in her own right but held Senator Penny Wong's proxy vote. Senator Wong and Tanya Plibersek did not appear for the vote, leaving it to their proxies to cast their votes against turnbacks.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Unions help Shorten help themselves</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ewin Hannan Workplace editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>490 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rarely a week passes in federal politics without the Abbott government or its business allies seeking to damage Bill Shorten by linking his leadership to the more extremist elements of the union movement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition's targets are often the nation's two most militant unions, the <span class="companylink">Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union</span> and the <span class="companylink">Maritime Union of Australia</span>, who are depicted as corrupt thugs not acting in the public interest.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But these two unions have temporarily upset the government's narrative by using their numbers at the ALP national conference to help Shorten move closer to the Coalition on the critical issue of <b>asylum</b> seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In doing so, they have been vital to Shorten securing the most important victory of his leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Certainly, the union movement's chief priority entering the conference was to get ALP support to try to rewrite key elements of the Chinese trade deal. It achieved this objective, with Labor committing - in opposition and government - to push the union goal of greater "safeguards" to protect Australian jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But unlike some past party conferences, the support from key elements of the party's industrial wing for Shorten was more pragmatic than transactional.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the unions, the so-called "main game" is not just about winning the election at all costs, as some of its left-wing critics suggest. Outside the national conference bubble, the union movement is under significant assault from the Coalition. The government has used the Royal Commission on Trade Union Governance and Corruption to discredit and distract key unions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beyond damaging the union movement's brand, the commission has soaked up the financial resources of unions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next week, the Productivity Commission will release its long-awaited report into the workplace relations system, handing the government a series of policy options which, if implemented, are likely to weaken the standing of unions and reduce the guaranteed entitlements of workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The royal commission is due to hand down its findings in December. It would be unsurprising if royal commissioner Dyson Heydon recommended criminal and civil proceedings be pursued against CFMEU officials, or proposed the deregistration of the union.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As these events unfold, the Coalition could well be deciding whether to seek a mandate from voters at the next election for the various recommendations flowing from the Productivity Commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given its vulnerability to a Work Choices-style campaign, it is more likely the government will pursue policy options designed to weaken unions, as opposed to overtly targeting the pay and conditions of employees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is this bigger picture that informs the actions of unions at the ALP national conference. Their judgment was their position on issues from <b>boat</b> turn backs to free trade was more in line with their blue-collar base. But they were also convinced their support would enhance Shorten's electoral prospects, and reduce their exposure to a second-term Abbott agenda.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Policy mish-mash leaves both Coalition and Labor wanting</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Reith - Peter Reith is a former Howard government minister and a Fairfax Media columnist.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>852 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics can look and feel like a messy business. It's the nature of the beast because there are so many diverse interests, and trying to reconcile the irreconcilable can be a challenge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's big agenda at the weekend was all about politics for the next election and it picked two key policies for discussion: people smugglers and climate change. Both cost Labor votes in the previous election and it looks like Labor will be on the same treadmill at the next election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor faces an uphill battle despite being ahead in the polls. There are not many examples of a government losing office in Australian politics in a first term. It is partly because the public know that a new team needs time to learn the ropes and voters have a fairly generous disposition. "Give them a fair go" seems to be the attitude. So even Gough Whitlam, a poor economic manager, got a second term and so did Labor in 2010. But remaining in government and winning a second term also needs some "help" from the new opposition, like today's Shorten opposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When a party loses office and returns to opposition, usually the former members start to pack their bags.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The departure of the ex-ministers brings an understandable reinvigoration for the party. Sometimes, strong ex-ministers can cling to yesterday's issues whereas new members will be hungrier to do what it takes to get into office. In the Howard-Peacock days, after seven years, most of the Fraser ministers had gone and the new blood made a big difference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Labor's case, too many minsters are still in Parliament and locked in to the thinking of Rudd-Gillard. It's as if they want to bring back the Rudd-Gillard days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A related aspect is the ability of the opposition to dump policies that don't work with the electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most obvious policy failure was Labor's policy on <b>boat</b> people. The deaths of more than 1000 people who drowned at sea were a direct result of Labor's policy failures. When I hear Bill Shorten publicly apologise for the lives lost, when I hear him acknowledge that Labor was just plain wrong from the Tampa onwards, when I hear him without qualification say he will do everything in his power to stop boats in the future, only then might I half-believe him. But, based on the policy he announced last weekend, Labor will lose votes. But Australia will lose as well. Shorten's weak approach will not only lead to more boats and more drownings, but Australia will be hit by not only more refugees but an Australian public wanting to cut immigration; a double blow for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Labor were really ready for office it would have already adopted every last piece of the Coalition policy. Labor would have a bipartisan policy and Shorten would have told his team to stop talking about it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's second weekend overreach was its new carbon tax, which Labor calls an emissions trading scheme (ETS). Most Australians have had enough of the political fight over climate change. Labor lost votes over the carbon tax and its next scheme is no better. Shorten says the government is running a scare campaign but he can't deny that his scheme will lead to higher electricity costs. Frontier Economics reported last week that the government scheme to buy emissions costs $14 a tonne compared with Shorten's estimated cost of $200. Unless Bill can get his plans down to $14 he will lose this debate as well. Having taken steps on <b>asylum</b> seekers and the ETS, Labor failed to say anything about improving economic performance, including fiscal policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given its poor fiscal record, it was probably not a bad idea from the point of tactics. But for the country, time is ticking away for economic reform. Labor's denial of Australia's fiscal problems is not a policy approach it can afford to take to the next election any more than their ETS and <b>asylum</b> seeker policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is hardly a week that goes by when further evidence portrays the problems that are building up in our economy. Last May, <span class="companylink">Goldman Sachs</span> reported that <span class="companylink">Standard & Poor's</span> had said time was running out for Australia to get its budget in order. Another similar warning direct from <span class="companylink">Standard & Poor's</span> came just last week. And only recently, good work by the parliamentary budget office showed that if GDP does not grow as strongly as predicted in the budget, it is going to be a lot harder to get the budget back into surplus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was good the Prime Minister met with the premiers last week but let's face it, so far progress is minuscule.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maybe what we have now is an opposition with the wrong policies and a government without enough of the right ones.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gvote : Elections | gclimt : Climate Change | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | genv : Environmental News | gglobe : Global/World Issues | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020150727eb7s0004l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020150727eb7s00056" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten now needs clearer economic vision</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>726 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Going into last weekend's ALP conference the odds were stacked against Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A fortnight earlier the Labor leader gave a less than impressive performance in a high-profile appearance before the trade union royal commission. Subsequent opinion polls showed Shorten's personal approval rating had slumped to dangerously low levels.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten raised the stakes before the conference by declaring he wanted a future Labor Government to have the option of turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats when it was safe to do so. This caught many in the ALP off-guard and triggered fury in sections of the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any significant defeat for Shorten on the conference floor would have seriously damaged his leadership and maybe even killed it. With the 400-delegate conference evenly poised between members of Shorten's Right faction and those on the Left, nothing seemed assured. But after a weekend of negotiation and some compromise, Shorten prevailed in key policy fights, including the politically crucial issue of <b>asylum boat</b>-turn backs. He has emerged from the conference stronger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALP conferences are often combative affairs. Its members have a long history of openly, sometimes awkwardly, thrashing out their differences on policy conundrums. The party has once again engaged in robust discussions. It should come as no surprise that some of those debates were heated and emotional. The Herald welcomes these vigorous debates about important national challenges. It can sometimes be inconvenient for party leaders, but we expect nothing less from all our political parties. It is one of the markers of our democracy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Labor moved closer to the Coalition on <b>asylum</b> boats, Shorten has two new, high-profile policies that contrast starkly with the Abbott Government. First, a climate change policy goal requiring half of Australia's large-scale energy production to be generated using renewable sources within 15 years. This is not the reckless, unachievable ambition that some critics have made it out to be. As the Herald reported on Saturday, Kobad Bhavnagri from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, estimates that Australia "will move to 37 per cent renewable by 2030" even without any new policies. Shorten's renewable energy policy is a prudent step in the right direction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Second, a Shorten Labor government will introduce legislation to allow same-sex marriage early in its first term. A conference compromise allows for Labor MPs to have a conscience vote on marriage equality until 2019, but after that it will become a binding vote. Opinion polls show the legalisation of same-sex marriage has strong support among Australian voters and Shorten's promise will increase pressure on the Liberal Party to allow a conscience vote if a bill comes before Parliament. Shorten used a speech at the conference to call on Prime Minister Tony Abbott to "trust his own members of Parliament to follow their views, not his political way of thinking."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a pity, however, that economic policy was largely overshadowed at the 2015 ALP conference. The attention paid to other issues, especially <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy and marriage equality, left little space for economic policies to be widely canvassed. Last week, the Reserve Bank governor, Glenn Stevens, said in a speech that the "ability to deliver social policy outcomes, to enjoy the benefits of a 'good society', or at a more basic level to provide public services and even to defend ourselves, ultimately rests on a productive economy." He also emphasised the importance of innovation and "risk-taking" for Australia's future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Voters now know more about Labor's agenda but big questions remain about a Shorten Government's economic policies. Does Labor have a comprehensive plan to nurture a productive economy and encourage risk-taking? What is its strategy to deal with rising long-term unemployment in the aftermath of the mining boom? Does Labor have a substantial tax reform plan to respond to the growing fiscal challenges identified by last week's special meeting of the <span class="companylink">Council of Australian Governments</span>?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now that Labor has come to a position on important issues like <b>boat</b> turn-backs and marriage equality Bill Shorten must tell voters what he will do in response to Australia's big economic challenges. With only about 14 months left before the next election, and an early poll still possible, time is running out.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nedi : Editorials | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020150727eb7s00056</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NEHR000020150728eb7s0001r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>fromtheherald.com.au</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>315 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THEIR SAY opinion</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">fromtheherald.com.au</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ A teenager has been dragged from his car and brutally bashed after accidentally bumping into another vehicle at the Strzelecki Lookout on Friday night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So much violence over such a minor incident. Just another indicator of our society going backwards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locomotion</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's Newcastle for you, so disappointing. There are a lot of good people here but seem outnumbered by ignorant, arrogant, poorly educated, violent dropkicks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">C</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Resorting to violence seems to be the first response from some. In this situation I would imagine it would have had a different scenario if young Jesse was over 190cm tall and weighed over 110kg. Those wishing to bully/assault others generally like to pick on someone much smaller.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Barry of Nambucca</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What a coward. Hope there's some CCTV footage that identifies the attacker's car.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Bailey</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nobody intervened because if you bash somebody who's bashing somebody else (and how else are you supposed to stop them?) you wind up in the lockup.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">jlan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">fromfacebook</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ NSW Premier Mike Baird and Transport Minister Andrew Constance have unveiled the new design for the transport interchange at Wickham.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a brilliant design to complement what is already a logical and fantastic idea. Which means it will never happen in Newcastle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dean Spong</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Serious concerns regarding the flow of this transport interchange.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cat Atoms</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I like it. Fresh and modern. Hope the roof can handle a wet, windy day though.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Josh Fitzgerald</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They should start the light rail on the other side, leaving Stewart Avenue free for traffic and build an overpass and underground access for passengers transferring.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nat Bradford</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">onlinepoll</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today's question</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Were the Newcastle Knights right in sacking coach Rick Stone?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday's result</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do you support Labor's position on <b>asylum</b>-seeking <b>boat</b> turn-backs?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">50%</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">50%</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NEHR000020150728eb7s0001r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ILM0000020150728eb7s0000c" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labour lacks resolve on boats: critics</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>343 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR believes it will be forced to turn <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats around within days if it forms government but critics insist they're not up to the job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles says a newly elected Labor government would quickly find its <b>boat</b> policy tested by people smugglers seeking to resume their trade.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think it is very likely that within the first days of a Labor government, we would be put in a position of needing to turn a <b>boat</b> around," Mr Marles told ABC Radio on Monday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It comes after Opposition frontbencher Anthony Albanese, who remains personally opposed to turn-backs and voted against the policy at the ALP national conference, insisted Labor wouldn't need to turn any boats around, thanks to its doubling of the humanitarian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has sought to brush off claims of disunity around the turn-back policy after frontbenchers Tanya Plibersek and Penny Wong avoided personally voting on the proposal, instead handing their votes to a proxy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Tony Abbott insists Labor is "dangerously divided" on border security and can't be trusted to maintain it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What the Labor Party did on the weekend is not conducive to confidence that any future Labor government would maintain the strong border protection policies that have been put in place," Mr Abbott told reporters in Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Retired Major General Jim Molan, who helped write the government's Operation Sovereign Borders policy, says Labor doesn't have the resolve necessary to make the policy work, as they're overly concerned with turn-backs and offshore processing instead of the task of border control.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't think that they have any idea of the importance of resolve in coming up with a policy and making that policy work," he told ABC TV.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles said Labor's turn-backs would work the same way as the current government's.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he insists Labor would ensure its policies "pass muster" with the <span class="companylink">UN</span>'s <b>refugee</b> agency. AAP</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM coy on return</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>129 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has refused to confirm whether a <b>boat</b> load of <b>asylum</b> seekers has been returned to Vietnam, saying that secrecy was in the national interest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> was spotted off Western Australia's north coast last week near Dampier. But the federal government has declined to confirm whether the passengers have been sent back.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said his government was acting in the national interest and not "running a shipping news service for people smugglers".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We haven't felt the need to big note ourselves," Mr Abbott said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The previous Labor government had spent too much time talking about itself and not enough time getting on with the job of border protection, he said. AAP</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘Xenophobic ploy won’t play with Vietnamese’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SONIA KOHLBACHER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>470 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor Party’s policy of turning back <b>asylum</b> boats has disappointed Vietnamese people, who will take out their frustrations at the ballot box next year, a community leader has warned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nam Pham, a Perth pharmacist who came to Australia with his family as an 11-year-old <b>refugee</b> in 1987, said Labor’s decision was an attempt to win voter support.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Pham, an advocate for ­Vietnamese <b>asylum</b>-seekers and former West Australian branch president of Vietnamese Community in Australia, said that if Bill Shorten and Tony Abbott were serious about stopping deaths at sea they should focus on long-term solutions rather than playing into “xenophobic” views in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(Labor) have seen what the Abbott government is using and they’re applying that same thing just to win back votes,” Mr Pham said. “It’s very disappointing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They’re going for something that will win votes over something that is morally right.” Mr Pham said that both major parties were “trying to feed into the xenophobia of the community” instead of educating people about the benefits of a multi­cultural society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Pham travelled with his mother and two sisters by <b>boat</b> from Vietnam to Malaysia and was processed as <b>refugee</b> before being resettled in Australia with Mr Pham’s father.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I just feel I was more fortunate back then; people and the government were more understanding,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both political parties should be doing more to solve the issues that led to people fleeing their country of ­origin, he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Sunday, a group of 46 Vietnamese <b>asylum</b>-seekers intercepted by the Australian Navy off the West Australian coast last week were returned to the coastal province of Binh Thuan, according to Trung Doan of the Vietnamese-Australian human rights organisation VOICE.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Doan said he had spoken to locals who knew those on board. The group pooled their money together to buy the wooden fishing vessel for about $12,570 for the specific purpose of leaving Vietnam and did not appear to use the help of people-smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Doan said the group, ­including two infants, were interviewed at sea before being taken to an undisclosed location, where they were then transferred on to a plane and flown back to Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All except three people on board the <b>boat</b> were sent back to their homes by provincial police. Two men and one woman were taken to the provincial centre to face additional questioning by more senior authorities.Mr Doan said a transnational policy similar to the Comprehensive Plan of Action adopted by <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> in 1989, under which Australia was among many Western nations that resettled refugees, was a more realistic option than solving the root cause that led to people fleeing their country of origin.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor in lock-step with Coalition over turnbacks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEFANIE BALOGH   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>583 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor will adopt the same operational framework as the Coalition to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats in the Java Sea, including using ­orange lifeboats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The opposition immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, yesterday agreed with warnings from his colleagues Chris Bowen and Tony Burke that as soon as Labor returned to office its resolve on turning back boats to Indonesia would be tested by the people-smugglers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We would want the full suite of measures that the government has available to it now,’’ Mr Marles said, indicating this included the use of lifeboats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former immigration minister Scott Morrison, who set up Operation Sovereign Borders, branded Labor’s proposal to adopt <b>boat</b> turnbacks as a “very bad ­karaoke version of the Coalition’s policy; I mean it doesn’t even ­approach it’’. The Coalition had been successful, he said, because it was “of one mind and of one resolve to stop the boats’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott echoed the mes­sage, saying Labor was “dangerously divided when it comes to border security. It’s dangerously divided and in many respects ­almost unrecognisable from the Greens’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP national conference at the weekend endorsed <b>boat</b> turnbacks, however, frontbencher ­Anthony Albanese voted against it while deputy leader Tanya Plibersek and Senate leader Penny Wong used proxies who voted against it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The military expert who ­helped set up Operation Sovereign Borders with Mr Morrison, retired Major-General Jim Molan, who is seeking Liberal preselection in NSW for the Senate, told The Australian: “Not everyone who gets in a <b>boat</b> to come to Australia is a persecuted <b>refugee</b> straight off Oscar Schindler’s list.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So you’ve got to have a process. It is comforting to know that the ALP has acknowledged that we were right, but two things they don’t understand — the ­comprehensiveness of the ­policy and the resolve of its ­implementation.’’ Labor’s turnback policy will concentrate on boats between the perilous route of Java and Christmas Island. It will adopt the same position on returns to source countries such as Sri Lanka and Vietnam as the ­Coalition, saying those found to be seeking <b>asylum</b> from persecution would not be ­returned in breach of Australia’s international obligations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor wants <b>refugee</b> claims screened under an improved process overseen by the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Let’s be clear, if there are people on board a vessel who have come from a source country that vessel is not going to be turned back without those people on-board being subject to an assessment process as to who they are and what claims they might have, and lets also be clear that’s what the government is doing,’’ Mr Marles told the ABC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The government in that sense is not turning boats back to countries, to source countries; they haven’t done that to Sri Lanka and to my knowledge it has not done that to Vietnam.’’ Mr Marles said at the weekend that it had emerged in Senate ­estimates that 16 boats had tried to come to Australia between ­December 2013 and May this year, including two from Sri Lanka and about 14 that were turned back to Indonesia. He said there had been no deaths since late 2013.Opposition Leader Bill Shorten reiterated the message, saying that Labor would take the same approach as the ­Coalition when it came to the issue of boats from source countries, and people would be assessed to determine whether they were in danger of persecution.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor’s conference strictly for inner-city lefties</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>831 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The party is reckless in its xenophobic attack on free trade</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s national conference doesn’t look any better after a pause for reflection. It sorely lacked an agenda for economic growth, budget repair or defence of our living standards — and this from a party that in the 1980s managed to put national interests above sectional concerns in order to lay the foundation for an open, modern and prosperous economy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP’s 47th conference, which wound up in Melbourne on Sunday, was conducted in denial of economic reality. There was no sense that Labor aspired to run a nation heading for an accumulated debt of $667 billion by 2024. There was no evidence of any effort to break Australia out of the low-growth trap, although Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens last week pointed out that better productivity was the key. What must pragmatic leaders of the labour movement such as Bob Hawke and Bill Kelty have thought as they followed the hapless progress of this party conference? It had little to say about the basic concerns and causes that preoccupy middle Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, delegates toyed with the boutique issues of the inner-city chattering classes. On gay marriage they went perilously close to an intolerant compulsion of conscience. They decided that a Labor administration would create a new job title — a minister for the republic — as if that might help bring about a politically elusive constitutional change. As for <b>asylum</b>-seekers and border protection, Labor contrived to combine awkward moral posturing with a half-hearted admission of its record of abject failure. On climate change, the conference floated an “aspirational” aim — half of all energy to come from renewable sources by 2030 — as well as the unlikely idea of a new bureaucracy to somehow compensate for very real job losses in the coal-fired power industry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All this was earnestly scrutinised by commentators of the <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>-ABC duopoly with little sense that the crucial middle ground of politics had been all but abandoned. The conference delegates who booed talk of <b>boat</b> turnbacks are unlikely ever to have voted Labor, just as ALP staff are a perfect fit for the Greens-voting demographic. After all, as John Black, the Labor senator turned political analyst, has pointed out, the ALP won just seven seats of its current 55 seats on the primary vote. The rest came courtesy of preferences from the Greens and independent candidates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A perfect emblem of the collective insularity of this year’s party conference was the attempt to subject an outspoken former minister, Martin Ferguson, to a bout of thought reform. Mr Ferguson had dared to criticise the party for putting its sectional interest ahead of the public interest in electricity privatisation. Delegates voted to “condemn” Mr Ferguson and also criticised Mr Kelty, who has added his voice to party and trade union elders in favour of reducing union influence within the ALP. The successful motion stipulated that “debate must occur at the appropriate Labor forums, not in the public domain”. So much for the open contest of ideas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s no secret about the origins of Labor’s dangerous idea to rewrite the China-Australia free trade agreement; the <span class="companylink">Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union</span> is running a scare campaign that makes complaints about 457 visas look underdone. The benefits of a free trade agreement with our No 1 trade partner ought to be obvious. Once fully implemented, the agreement would mean that 95 per cent of Australian exports to China would be free of tariffs. The government estimates that any delay to parliamentary approval could cost at least $300 million next year alone, with the industries affected including coal, beef, sheep, dairy and wine. Chinese demand for safe, quality produce is likely to bring healthy growth in our exports; with that growth come job creation and better living standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet, singing from the CFMEU’s conference song sheet, Labor protests that the free trade agreement will bring an influx of Chinese workers undercutting the jobs, wages and conditions of Australians. Trade Minister Andrew Robb has dismissed this claim: “It’s a total straw man. (The China agreement) mirrors the provisions that Labor has supported in the past in other agreements … Labor has got to be enormously careful in the … use of what will be perceived as playing the race card.” He is right. And he has the backing of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which has punctured a series of myths about the agreement, including the union claim that it will allow unrestricted access to the labour market by Chinese workers.There is no escaping the conclusion that Labor is willing to trash relations with our most important trading partner to generate xenophobic support for the labour movement. What has happened to the once great party that committed itself to economic growth and productivity to lift the living standards of ordinary Australians?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Digital age voters want high-def policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL WILLIAMS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>487 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’S 2015 conference had just enough friction to make it interesting, while coming up with just enough electorally appealing policy to make the next election a real contest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s a shame the party’s relationship with trade unions and the 1921 socialisation objective were shelved as too hard, but at least Opposition Leader Bill Shorten looked somewhat authoritative as the architect of reform – a critical breakthrough after his defensiveness at the recent royal commission.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He mightn’t be any more popular than Tony Abbott, but he’s at least bought himself some time. There’ll be no talk of a Labor leadership spill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A big winner was the 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030. It’s a big technological ask, but it’s the sort of policy short circuit that can reboot what has become a very stodgy political climate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s now up to Labor to sell its policy difference, and the Coalition’s job to argue (even if unconvincingly) why we don’t need renewable energy. This could be the pivot on which the next election turns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another clever compromise was the two-step strategy on same-sex marriage. Allowing MPs a conscience vote for the next two terms mollifies the Right; committing to obligatory support after that satisfies the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Throw in a commitment to have women comprise 50 per cent of Labor MPs by 2025 and ongoing opposition to the Coalition’s university fee deregulation and the 2015 conference resembles the progressive policy fests of years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well, almost. What a shame Labor dropped the ball in supporting the Coalition’s <b>refugee boat</b> tow-back policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition’s motives are clear: it cannot and will not sacrifice a real chance at government by opposing a policy that seems to be working. It will not give blue collar voters in the outer suburbs, outraged by Abbott’s austere economics, any reason to cling to the Coalition. In climbing aboard the tow-back bandwagon, Labor hopes to avoid the dreaded policy “wedge”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But will it? Every voter kept on Labor’s Right will likely be offset by more lost to the Left. The Greens must be ecstatic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Greens’ vote doubles to about 20 per cent, expect it to marginalise Labor and champion itself as the true party of the Australian underdog. It’s not inconceivable that in 30 years’ time Labor will find itself the Australian Democrats of the 2040s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If it truly believes it’s the party of action and ideas and wants voters to paint the Liberals as reactionary pragmatists, it will offer voters strong policy contrasts at every opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a digital age, voters want high-definition policy: crisp, distinctive and not fuzzy around the edges. Politics should be about colour.DR PAUL WILLIAMS IS A SENIOR LECTURER AT GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bill’s <b>boat</b> backflip a Total Policy Vacuum</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>601 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE minister who finally stopped the boats after 50,000 people illegally ­arrived in Australia has slammed Labor’s turnback policy as a “hopeless joke” and a “very bad karaoke” version of government policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former immigration minister Scott Morrison, who faces the prospect of having his Operation Sovereign Border policy being watered down if Labor won power, made the attack yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It came as senior border protection officials said Labor’s decision to abolish temporary protection visas, which prevent <b>asylum</b> seekers from gaining permanent residency in Australia, would also dilute the impact of a turnback policy. The visas prevent people smugglers from selling permanent res­idency as an option.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Current Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed the TPVs would give the people smugglers’ target market added incentive to come to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Abolishing the Howard-era temporary protection visas in August 2008 was the trigger that restarted the boats,’’ he said in a pointed reference to the Rudd Labor government’s move.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“TPVs send a strong message that illegal arrivals will not be permanently settled in Australia, and that’s a vital ­element of Operation Sovereign Borders … (which) relies on the combination of <b>boat</b> turnbacks, TPVs and regional processing,” Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles, who with Bill Shorten has battled Labor’s powerful Left faction to get support for turnbacks, said Labor’s policy rendered TPVs redundant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor agreed at its national conference last weekend that turnbacks on illegal vessels would be used as a “policy option” if the ALP wins the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Temporary protection visas as a deterrent are completely redundant because no one seeking to come here by sea will be settled in Australia,’’ Mr Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Scrapping TPVs only applies to those people already in Australia. For this group of people, all TPVs do is place them in a prolonged state of uncertainty and on the government tab.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“John Howard recognised this — that’s why he abandoned them.” There is a view within government ranks that if the boats started, Nauru and Manus Island would not be big enough to house the ­increased intake of refugees, which meant some would have to come to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Morrison, now Social Services Minister, refused to buy into Labor’s pledge that turnbacks would happen, telling 2GB: “I mean, for goodness sake, it is a hopeless joke. If (Shorten) can’t keep his own Cabinet together on this in the opposition, how on earth would he implement a policy like this when the bellows come from his back bench and the ABC and Fairfax and everyone else?’’ “On top of that they are going to abolish TPVs, which is what started the whole madness last time.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TPVs Illegal arrivals granted <b>asylum</b> are given a TPV which lasts three years and provides access to some, but not all government services. At the end of three years the <b>refugee</b> must reapply and the circumstances in their homeland are reconsidered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In essence, permanent residency is never granted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1999: John Howard introduced TPVs to stop <b>asylum</b> seekers rorting the process. 2008: Kevin Rudd abolishes TPVs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2008-13: 50,000 illegal <b>asylum</b> seekers arrive and more than 1100 people die at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">October 2013: Tony Abbott pledges to bring TPVs back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">December 2013: The Senate blocks legislation to reintroduce TPVs.December 2014: Scott Morrison negotiates a deal with the crossbench to allow TPVs. In return for Palmer United votes a Safe Haven Enterprise <span class="companylink">Visa</span> (SHEV) was introduced allowing refugees to stay for five years if they agree to work in a regional area.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The right decision, but it took too long</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHAUN CARNEY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>951 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THERE are very few light-bulb moments in Australian politics — those instances when you can see what a government does is in lock-step with public opinion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the past 20 years, probably the biggest such moment came at the end of August 2001 when the Howard government refused to allow the Norwegian freighter, Tampa, to enter Australian waters. The Tampa had picked up 438 <b>asylum</b> seekers from a sinking <b>boat</b> and wanted to take them to Christmas Island. John Howard said no.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The public expression of support for his stand was overwhelming. His ratings in the opinion polls skyrocketed immediately. A solid majority of Australians backed Howard and dug in even more solidly behind him when he introduced offshore processing — the Pacific Solution — a few days later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It continues to dismay many people who regard themselves as brimming with compassion for <b>asylum</b> seekers to hear this, but the Howard government was doing what most Australian people wanted. They wanted to stop the flow of boats. And it worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the two years before Tampa, 13,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers had made it to Australia. From then until the fall of the government in 2007, hardly any <b>boat</b> people got here because the boats stopped coming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the effectiveness of the policy had little apparent impact on Labor. When the Rudd government took office, it did away with offshore processing. And the boats started coming again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Out of all of the policy areas overseen at the federal level, surely Labor’s greatest failure throughout the six years of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s leadership — the confirmation that it was plagued by incompetence and unclear about its goals — was its handling of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It acknowledged as much in dribs and drabs as the sorry tale of its political fragmentation played itself out from 2010 to 2013. First, Gillard set out to reintroduce offshore processing and then, in Labor’s dying days in government, Rudd took the hardline approach of refusing to accept anyone who tried to get here by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it was not enough because it was not a full-throated, coherent policy response.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s policy on boats has been one disaster after another for coming up to 20 years. It has been an open sore that never had any real hope of healing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s why the decision by up to two-thirds of the delegates at the weekend’s national ALP conference to allow a future Labor government to turn back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats was a big moment in national politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It brings to a close — or close to a close — the consistent failure of the mainstream Left in Australia to face reality on people smuggling and <b>asylum</b> seekers. It is something that has been slowly strangling the ALP — and the Left generally — for far too long. The truth is that there is no good solution to this problem. No country has found a way to deal with it and the hand-wringing “let them come” position of the Greens and elements of the Labor Left is not only sanctimonious, it’s a withdrawal from moral responsibility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is why Bill Shorten, if he leaves his party with nothing else during his stint as Labor leader, will at least have contributed to restoring the party’s political and policy viability on this issue that is central to voter perceptions of competence. That’s no small thing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’S performance on boats under Rudd and Gillard was so poor that the issue had become toxic for the party. Labor MPs with half a brain have for several years now been thoroughly averse to ever talking about <b>asylum</b> seekers because the party’s credibility had fallen to zero.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Consider the numbers. Once offshore processing was dismantled, <b>asylum</b> seekers started coming at about 5000 per year and kept climbing. By Labor’s last year in office, 25,000 arrived by <b>boat</b>. During that period as many as 1200 people drowned while trying to get to Australia. It’s a sorry record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps the most amazing aspect of all this is that there are still senior people inside the ALP who remain wedded to a rerun of the Rudd-Gillard approach, which rules out turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most prominent of these is Anthony Albanese, who voted for an amendment at the conference that would have explicitly ruled out turn-backs. Albanese was Shorten’s rival for the leadership after the party’s 2013 defeat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He attracts solid support from the party’s rank-and-file, which these days hews strongly to the old and the Left. Albanese claims to see this issue as one in which “compassion” should help determine policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a confused and confusing position. Clearly, Australia cannot accept all of the people who want to come here, no matter their method of arrival. Once that is acknowledged, refusing to take all unauthorised arrivals has to be the bedrock of the policy. Without that declaration, the invitation is out there for anybody to try to take their chances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, Tanya Plibersek keeps the confusion going. Because she’s the deputy leader she couldn’t embarrass Shorten but as a Left-winger she couldn’t support him. So she tried to avoid voting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This should not be a Left-Right issue. Labor tried the “compassionate” way and it led to chaos and death. Who can forget seeing up to 50 <b>asylum</b> seekers being killed as their <b>boat</b> was dashed on the rocks at Christmas Island in 2010?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor at last seeing sense on this issue has come too late for them.SHAUN CARNEY IS A HERALD SUN COLUMNIST</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>This could open the floodgates</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OPINION ANDREW BOLT andrew.bolt@news.com.au   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE rest of the West is now desperately trying to save itself from mass immigration from the Third World.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten’s Labor party alone is in denial, demanding weaker borders, not stronger. Demanding more refugees, not fewer.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is Labor blind?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vast populations are on the move from poor countries to rich ones. Up to 500,000 people from Africa and the Middle East have gathered in Libya alone to cross to Italy, a voyage which has already cost the lives of 2000 of the 87,000 illegal immigrants who’ve sailed over this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Greece, nearly 10 per cent of the population are now illegal immigrants – more than 1 million in a country barely able to feed itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">North of Greece, Hungary is fencing its border.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Britain is building bigger fences at the Calais entrance to the <span class="companylink">Eurotunnel</span> to stop immigrants jumping into the back of trucks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">France, where an astonishing 70 per cent of jail inmates are now Muslim, closed its border with Italy this year to stop mainly Muslim immigrants from Africa flooding in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US increased patrols of its Mexican border, and over the past year has caught 27,000 unaccompanied children from South America trying to cross over.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Closer to us, Thailand this year deployed its navy to stop people smugglers ferrying illegal workers from Bangladesh and Burma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The barriers are going up, particularly in the West. The people trying to get in are just too many – and from cultures too different – to easily assimilate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But at Labor’s national conference last weekend, Bill Shorten revealed his plan to not just reopen our back door but fling the front door even wider by doubling our <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sure, the Opposition leader won headlines for at last ending Labor’s ban on turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But that commitment is a smokescreen for actually dismantling key parts of the Abbott Government’s border policies while still seeming “tough”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don’t be fooled. Shorten and his immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, have said only that Labor now wants “the option” of turning back the boats, but both refuse to promise they’ll actually do it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not once yet have they unequivocally said “we will turn back the boats when safe to do so”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, challenged on this on 2GB, Marles lamely said Labor would first “want to make sure about how it works with the relationship with Indonesia”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pardon? But Indonesia already says boats should not be turned back. So Labor’s policy, as explained by its immigration spokesman, means no <b>boat</b> ever would be returned under a Shorten government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, both deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek and Senate leader Penny Wong voted on Saturday against turnbacks. So how many boats would Labor turn back if Plibersek does replace the unpopular Shorten, as many tip?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile – and in reality – Shorten plans to destroy parts of the Government’s border policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are policies that stopped the people smugglers who under Labor brought 50,000 illegal immigrants to our shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Shorten now promises to scrap temporary protection visas, under which <b>boat</b> people are sent home once their countries are again safe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also promises to end the Government’s policy of not discussing on-water operations – a blackout that prevents every tow-back turning into a media circus to be exploited by activists, Leftist journalists and lawyers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Shorten won’t just encourage illegal immigrants. He also promises to double our <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 – the population of Alice Springs – every year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Be clear how absurdly “generous” Shorten is.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He wants Australia to take 27,000 refugees a year when the United Nations High Commission for Refugees resettles a total of 100,000 around the whole world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only the US, 13 times bigger than us, resettles more – 70,000. Britain, with nearly three times our population, resettles just 1000, and New Zealand 750.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But even with this huge sop to Labor’s Left, Shorten’s <b>boat</b> plan has still been damned as too cruel by many Labor delegates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drunk on their compassion, they cannot focus on what’s actually happening and the risks to which Shorten will expose Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Let’s skip over the cost of Shorten’s promise – nearly $3 billion over four years, when we’re deep in debt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Consider just why it costs. Refugees need lots of taxpayers’ help because most don’t have the skills, education, English or even cultural compatibility to fit in easily.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet despite our help, how well overall have refugees from Lebanon’s civil war assimilated?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How well have the Afghans, Iranians and Somalis we’ve taken in lately got on? Here are confronting facts most politicians and journalists won’t mention for fear of seeming racist or mean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here are facts you nevertheless need to better understand the risks of Labor’s plans, and what’s needed to minimise them. For a start, the world’s top five source countries for refugees are all Muslim, and most <b>asylum</b> seekers who’ve sailed here are Muslim.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet this is precisely the demographic we have most trouble assimilating. In Victoria, an estimated 8 per cent of prisoners are Muslim, when Muslims make up just 2.2 per cent of the whole population. In NSW, it’s 9.3 per cent of prisoners but just 3.3 per cent of the population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there’s the extremism. Of the 21 people jailed in Australia for terrorism offences, all are Muslim and 12 were born overseas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Martin Place gunman Man Monis and Numan Haider, the <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> supporter who stabbed two police in Melbourne, both came as refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, we must ask whether Islam is the problem, but we must also ask if it’s so surprising that some refugees feel “alienated” when they’re brought to a rich society, only to be stuck in an underclass.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, an Immigration Department study in 2011 found a worrying 85 per cent of refugees were on <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> benefits in their first five years here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just 9 per cent of Afghan adults had a job and 94 per cent received benefits. Just 12 per cent of Iranian adults worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, many refugees do grab this chance of refuge. Some even star, like South Australia’s Governor, Hieu Van Le, who came from Vietnam on a <b>boat</b> and had a distinguished career in government and community service. Comedian Ahn Do, author of The Happiest <b>Refugee</b>, was a <b>boat</b> person, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But play the numbers. Labor’s plan to double the <b>refugee</b> intake and ease our border laws risks trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, we must help refugees in real need. No question.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But where in Labor’s policy is there a serious discussion of the costs and dangers? Where are Labor’s plans to better integrate refugees and keep Australians safe?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who will Labor select to come, for instance? What jobs can it offer, with unemployment so high?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And when does the price of Labor’s compassion exceed its duty of care to our own?No, Shorten’s policy is dishonest, uncosted, expensive, naive and, in the end, dangerous.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>373 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Govt won't comment on night flight for refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian authorities used the cover of darkness to whisk back a group of Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers to their homeland by plane, where three of them have been detained, a Vietnamese advocacy group says. Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday refused to comment on the reports, instead questioning the strength of Labor's commitment to turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats after it adopted the policy at the weekend.There are reports that the group of <b>asylum</b> seekers, which is thought to include two babies, arrived back in Vietnam on Sunday. Australian authorities are believed to have intercepted the group's <b>boat</b> off the coast of Dampier in Western Australia last week. VOICE spokesman Trung Doan, whose Melbourne-based organisation advocates for Vietnamese people in need of protection, said the group of 46 people arrived in Ho Chi Minh City by plane about 1pm on Sunday. Quoting sources in Vietnam, he said the <b>asylum</b> seekers were earlier transferred from their <b>boat</b> to an Australian <b>boat</b>, where they were interviewed by authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Doan said they were taken to an unknown island off the Australian mainland, where they departed by plane on Saturday night. After touching down in Vietnam, 43 <b>asylum</b> seekers were allowed to return home but three members of the group have been detained for further questioning, Mr Doan said. "There was no explanation. [The three people] were taken ... to the provincial centre and that indicates they would be in for serious interrogation," he said. Mr Doan said the <b>asylum</b> seekers comprised two extended family groups - mostly Christians, but also Buddhists. He believed the <b>boat</b> had departed Vietnam on July 2. <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> asked Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to substantiate the reports. But a spokeswoman said the government would not comment on "operational matters". Mr Abbott said Australia would "act in accordance with Australia's national interests and not run a shipping news service for people smugglers". He claimed his government succeeded on border protection because, unlike the former Labor government, "we haven't felt the need to broadcast what government is doing on a moment by moment basis".</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> block raises Indonesian ire</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Aaron Bunch and Jonathan Barrett   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>413 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government's decision to stop resettling refugees registering in Indonesia has strained social services and detention centres there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the eight months since the change in policy, the number of <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees registered with Jakarta have increased by 30 per cent to 13,188 people, according to United Nations data.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The increased burden on Indonesian social services and detention centres - Indonesia is traditionally seen as a transit country, particularly for Australian resettlement - threatens to further strain relations between the neighbouring nations, already suffering from the fallout of the Bali executions and reduced cattle import quotas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Each month, several hundred people arrive in Indonesia seeking <b>asylum</b>. The majority are Shia Hazara of Afghan origin, along with Tamils, Somalis, Iraqis, Iranians and Rohingya from Myanmar.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In November 2014, then immigration minister Scott Morrison announced Australia would no longer resettle refugees who had registered with the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> in Jakarta after July 1, 2014. "These changes should reduce the movement of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia and encourage them to seek resettlement in or from countries of first <b>asylum</b>," he said at the time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also announced that Australia would resettle 150 fewer refugees who registered prior to that date, down from 600 to 450 annually.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is too early to tell whether the policy will stem arrivals in Indonesia, given monthly numbers appeared to be dropping in 2015 compared to 2014, before a spike in Rohingya migrants arriving on Indonesia's northern shores in May. Most have traditionally used Indonesia as a transit country to get a <b>boat</b> to Christmas Island or wait for resettlement in Australia through the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Afghan <b>refugee</b> Ali Rasooli told The Australian Financial Review <b>asylum</b> seekers continued to arrive to the full community detention facilities in Makassar, north-east of Bali, and that in recent months Indonesian immigration officials had held meetings to calm rising anger in the local community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People are coming from Pakistan and Afghanistan in order to save their lives. They are not safe there," the 24-year-old said, referring to the threat to Shia Muslims from the Taliban, Sunni militants and <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers and refugees in Indonesia are waiting up to four years for <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Indonesian law migrants cannot work while they wait, so must rely on their own savings or on the Indonesian government and <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> for their food and shelter.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor conference achieves little</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>642 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FINANCIAL REVIEWStrap</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite all the troubles that have beset Labor and the now obvious need to reduce the involvement of unions in its affairs, the Labor Party conference at the weekend skirted around party reform and mostly shied away from anything that could be described as useful policy initiatives.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was no suggestion of substantial reform in tax, industry relations, reduction in red tape or restraint in government spending, or any change that would shift more power to the rank and file, and weaken what Bob Hawke has called the almost suffocating power of the trade unions. There was nothing about Labor that would reverse the decline in productivity growth or deal with the fall in per capita real national income. This is despite Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens pointing out in a speech last week that Australia needs more growth to fund and maintain the good life of decent public services and standards of living, of which Australians treasure and want ever more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead the conference demonstrated once again that Labor's internal politics should be seen in the context of the split between the union factional warlords, who still control the labor machinery and who support leader Bill Shorten even after knifing the past two Labor prime ministers, and the left progressives who hold sway over the branches. The left would prefer Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That structure resulted in the conference favouring heated debate over the still largely symbolic issue of gay marriage, and over <b>boat</b> turnbacks - both issues much favoured by the party left. Shorten knew he had to stare down the left on <b>boat</b> people, which he managed to do, because Tony Abbott would slaughter any Labor leader who did not remain strong. But Mr Shorten's hand was strengthened by the reality of mass downings and no increase in <b>refugee</b> numbers following the debacle of the dismantling of the Howard-era <b>boat</b> policies by the Rudd-Gillard Labor governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the two substantial reforms announced, the decision to double the <b>refugee</b> quota is at least a sensible response to the Left's repeated calls for a humanitarian response in immigration. But a declaration that Labor would set the renewable energy target at 50 per cent makes little sense as a policy, except as a straight play for the green vote and as a counter to scare stories about Labor's at least plausible policy to re-introduce an emissions trading scheme but combined with a baseline system for electricity sector.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, as political editor Laura Tingle points out in this newspaper, the 50 per cent figure is a "goal" rather than a "target", to be set in expectation that the electricity industry will get there mostly of its own accord through changing technology, consumer preferences and falling prices, among other factors. Although the policy counts now as more of a statement of intention it would still seem to duplicate the ETS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia, despite a reduction to the RET hammered out by the major parties, the policy still promises to be expensive. An ACIL Allen modelling report produced for 2014's Warburton review of the old RET scheme found that it would have required electricity distributors to buy $37.8 billion worth of Renewable Energy Certificates in 2014 dollars over the period to 2030, with that cost to be passed on to consumers. But the kicker is that capacity required for the green targets will be largely surplus to the market's needs, creating market distortions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The details of such policies aside, the Labor conference has achieved little but show yet again the deep divisions between the inner-city left, who fight with the Greens over symbolic issues, and the traditional, shrinking union arm, which still controls and finances the parliamentary patronage. Substantial reform was off the table.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i16101 : Electric Power Generation | i1 : Energy | i16 : Electricity/Gas Utilities | ieutil : Electric Utilities | iutil : Utilities</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | c315 : Conferences/Exhibitions | ccat : Corporate/Industrial News | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020150726eb7r0000t</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020150726eb7r00026" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten given a lifeline on <b>boat</b> turn-back policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHAEL GORDON - Michael Gordon is political editor of The Age.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1118 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is much to like about the policy but there are also many unanswered questions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten's victory on the most divisive issue at Labor's national conference was so emphatic that, in the end, all that was deemed necessary to establish it was a show of hands by voting delegates, rather than a count.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not only was turning back boats intercepted at sea endorsed as a tactic to defeat people smugglers, a second motion committing Labor to close offshore detention centres that failed to deliver "humane and safe conditions" was lost on the strength of voices, without even a show of hands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader can be satisfied that the issue is now settled, as far as the party's policy for the next election is concerned, in no small part because he put his authority on the line. But the broader debate has only just begun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has committed itself to a new architecture to respond to the greatest global humanitarian crisis since World War II, with a policy Shorten describes as reflecting the qualities that define the national identity: fairness, compassion and generosity of spirit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's most powerful observation was in response to the most potent argument against turn-backs: that if every country embraced them, the global system of protection for refugees would collapse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If every country embraced the other aspects of Labor's policy, he remarked, the world would be a better place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is much to like about the policy crafted by opposition spokesman for immigration and border protection Richard Marles after painstaking consultations, but there are many unanswered questions - and the most troubling of all was not even posed during Labor's passionate but dignified hour-long debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy in effect proposes a new system for dealing with <b>asylum</b> seekers, one that would reduce the incentive for people to risk their lives on unsafe boats, largely by building the capacity of transit nations as part of a regional framework to deal with the problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A doubling of Australia's <b>refugee</b> intake during a decade, with a portion dedicated to resettling refugees from the region; a $450 million commitment to help the <span class="companylink">United Nations Human Rights Council</span>'s work in south-east Asia and the Pacific; and the promise to lead the development of a regional "humanitarian framework" are key elements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the policy is silent on the question of how Australia would transition to this system from an Abbott government approach based solely on deterring would-be arrivals, where any display of compassion is viewed as weakness and a "green light to people smugglers".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Specifically, there is no mention of what a Labor government's attitude would be to about 2000 people consigned to a life in limbo without hope in Nauru or on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only commitment is to "guarantee" their safety by working "with our international partners to implement independent oversight of every Australian-funded facility". But how?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As human rights lawyer Daniel Webb recently observed, more <b>asylum</b> seekers sent to Manus Island have died than been resettled, two years after Labor reopened the centre. For all the promises about prompt processing and resettlement in PNG, those whose claims have been positively resolved are denied work rights or freedom of movement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru's discomfort with scrutiny is reflected in the refusal to grant visas to journalists and human rights lawyers, let alone allow them to talk to those in indefinite detention. So how could a Labor government guarantee that the promised "independent children's advocate" would have access to children sent to Nauru? How could it ensure the safety of single women living in the Nauruan community?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are others questions too, such as whether Labor in power will persist with turn-backs if Indonesia refuses to be part of a regional response while an Australian government reserves the right to deploy them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More broadly, the weight of Labor's record invites scepticism, including the failure to deliver on a commitment to rapid processing and more transparency in 2008, or to back recommendations about a regional framework from the expert panel set up by Julia Gillard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But don't expect the Abbott government to ask questions about the humanitarian gaps in the policy endorsed at Labor's national conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rather, the government will seize on each and every deviation from its hard line to argue that Labor will reopen the <b>asylum</b> floodgates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And there are deviations. Labor will not turn back boats to the country the <b>asylum</b> seekers have fled, as the Coalition has done in the case of Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Nor will it, we are promised, pay those employed by people smugglers on intercepted boats to return their human cargo to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, a pledge to take more refugees from the region will be portrayed by the Coalition as a new "pull factor" drawing <b>asylum</b> seekers to countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most telling contribution in Labor's debate came from the party's previous immigration minister, Tony Burke, but it wasn't when he spoke so movingly about the 33 <b>asylum</b> seekers "lost" at sea on his watch before the government was defeated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was when Burke predicted how the Coalition would attempt to undermine the new policy if Labor were re-elected, recalling the Coalition's opposition to the Malaysian people-swap and the undermining of the recommissioning of detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They will bugle a message out there claiming, and giving hope to smugglers: 'If you overwhelm it, it will be OK'," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vindication of the warning came on cue, with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton telling Sky News that people smugglers would be "looking to the weakness of Mr Shorten", and hoping and praying that he is elected at the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What Mr Shorten is proposing here is basically a white flag to say that if the Labor Party was re-elected ... there would be hundreds of thousands of people arriving illegally by <b>boat</b>."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This response is why Shorten felt he had no choice but to embrace turn-backs, despite the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>'s "profound concerns" that they contravene the spirit of the <b>refugee</b> convention, put vulnerable people at risk and set a poor example to other countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten has had a victory that will improve his prospects of an improbable election victory, but the notion of being a model global citizen when it comes to <b>asylum</b> seekers is as distant as a tiny dot of an island in the Pacific.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>unhrc : United Nations Human Rights Council</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150726eb7r00026</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ILM0000020150727eb7r0000l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Plibersek backs <b>boat</b> turnbacks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>161 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TANYA Plibersek has sought to show solidarity with Labor's new position on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks, saying the party has struck a "terrific position".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deputy Labor leader, from the NSW Left, avoided personally voting on the proposal to allow a future Labor government to adopt the policy at the ALP national conference on Saturday, instead handing her vote to a proxy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Plibersek said Labor's position was "humane, compassionate and sensible". She "could not be prouder" of Labor's policy, which includes a plan to double Australia's humanitarian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese, also from the NSW Left, voted against turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats. "If people were in a <b>boat</b>, including families and children, I myself couldn't turn that around," he told ABC television.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese acknowledged it was now part of Labor's policy platform but "I don't believe the boats will come". AAP</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>fromtheherald.com.au</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>341 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">fromtheherald.com.au</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Port Waratah Coal Services has offered to stump up a $12 million deal to offset the impacts of its planned T4 coal loader on Kooragang Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">$12 Mill - probably a drop in the ocean for them - yeah, just pay them out! But what will Council waste it on???</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rose-Hunter Region</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If I offered 12 million dollars that I didn't really have to pay and the attitude was it wasn't enough, I would take the offer off the table and then offer zero.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Paul Zuljan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A win for Newcastle? They are only paying a quarter of the tax they should have to pay to the council! $48 million was a bargain, considering the cost of this project to Newcastle and the greater good of humanity in general.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Save Newie from the Lieberals</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is this payment to compensate for what?? Generally when payments as these are offered prior to any development it is to con people into agreeing on a development which is undesirable or downright wrong so which is it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">mick</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That they would even bother stumping up any cash makes me think they don't want us to look too closely at the T4 project.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jo</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">fromfacebook</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Illegal dumping squad investigators are seeking public assistance to help identify the origin of two separate truckloads of building waste dumped at Wakefield Road, Ryhope, last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seems like the same person dumped this lot as well as the truckload on HEZ at Kurri.. Dirty filthy grubs grr</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Debra Squires</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Disgraceful. There's no excuse for this. Smaller dumps are appearing in suburban streets, Selwyn St Mayfield East is becoming a regular hotspot under Industrial Drive overpass</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Steve Shotton</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its across the board, people just leave hordes of rubbish dumped in suburban streets</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sharron Duce</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">onlinepoll</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Today's question</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do you support Labor's position on <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday's result</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Are you a registered organ donor?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">32.09%</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">67.91%</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NEHR000020150727eb7r00008</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-MRCURY0020150726eb7r0000x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Same-sex marriage vote not binding</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>273 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten has pledged to introduce a Bill to legalise same-sex marriage within 100 days of winning an election as he headed off a Left push to ­enforce a binding vote on the Labor Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A deal between the Right and Left yesterday saw Mr Shorten’s deputy, Left-aligned Tanya Plibersek, back away from a plan to enforce a binding vote in support of same-sex marriage on Labor MPs.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, a conscience vote will continue for the life of this parliament and the next.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In return, Mr Shorten will introduce a Bill to amend the Marriage Act in the first three months after an election win.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deal capped a successful ALP national conference for the leader, who also succeeded in getting turnbacks of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats ­included in Labor Party policy, despite fierce opposition from his Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the policy wins have come with significant divisions within his shadow cabinet, with Mr Shorten publicly at odds with Ms Plibersek, his Senate leader, Penny Wong, and Left-wing powerbroker and former leadership rival Anthony Albanese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The trio voted against <b>boat</b> turnbacks — Ms Plibersek and Senator Wong sending in proxies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Left factional powerbroker Kim Carr accused Ms Plibersek of hypocrisy, saying she had supported turnbacks in shadow cabinet — then sent in a proxy to vote against them on the conference floor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Wong and Mr Albanese acknowledged their policy losses but pledged to support the policy.The vote on same-sex marriage came after hours of tense negotiations between factional leaders, including Right-wing heavyweight Stephen Conroy, on Mr Shorten’s behalf.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ggaym : Same-Sex Marriage/Civil Union | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | glgbt : LGBT Rights | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document MRCURY0020150726eb7r0000x</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-MRCURY0020150726eb7r00001" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Open debate in political parties often painted as rifts, splits</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Greg Barns   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>836 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Media must show more maturity in reporting on policy discussions, writes Greg Barns</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LAST week this columnist mused on the degrading of democratic debate by the mainstream or established media. The mainstream media rails against the lack of policy debate in the major political parties in Australia but when such debates occur in public they are described as “war” or damaging splits.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On cue, the mainstream media was at it again last week. The Herald Sun ran emotive and childish headlines on its front pages about Labor Leader Bill Shorten being under threat by “mates” objecting to his slavish adherence to the Abbott Government’s policy of turning back desperate human beings seeking to exercise their legal right to seek <b>asylum</b> in Australia. But it wasn’t just the Herald Sun. The Fairfax media ran equally frenzied stories about this matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s leadership was on the line and Labor’s debate at its national conference on the issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers, with some on the ALP at last voicing their abhorrence that their party would sign up to a cruel policy pursued by an unhinged hard Right Abbott Government, will determine Labor’s success at the polls..</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a democratic society we expect — and indeed it is unhealthy and corrosive of the democracy not to do so — that those involved in political discourse have public debates about policy. It is desirable for political parties to encourage such a public debate. Joining a political party and being a member of parliament representing that party does not mean you have to agree with every element of that party’s platform. If you do, you obviously have lost the ability to think critically.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the case of the ALP one of the strengths of this political force is that it has a tradition of open debate at its national and state conferences. This debate is not just on issues of local importance but on questions of seminal importance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the 1970s and 1980s the ALP national conference saw feisty, passionate discussion about economic reform, nuclear power, Australia’s alliance with the US and the Fraser government’s compassion towards Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the ALP became a victim of the absurd 24/7 news cycle and the immaturity of the mainstream media in Australia that wants to paint every political debate within a political party as a split.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">National conferences of the ALP have become stage-managed robotic marketing trips. They have been driven by fear of that mainstream media cycle and culture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At last it seems there are some in the ALP who have had enough. It has been heartening to see Tasmanian ALP MPs like Lisa Singh, Michelle O’Byrne and Julie Collins publicly stating that they do not support the unspeakable cruelty of the Abbott Government on <b>boat</b> turn backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is heartening the ALP national conference is generating a policy discussion where values and philosophy are at the fore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a mark of the lack of intellectual gravitas and the cynicism of the mainstream media that it sees the ALP debate through the prism of Mr Shorten’s leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To write that Mr Shorten must be able to go to the next federal election with a policy that is illegal and inhumane or else he is finished is extraordinary reasoning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wouldn’t it benefit our democracy if the media, particularly those who walk the corridors of Parliament House in Canberra, could say to readers, listeners and viewers that there is something much more important than leadership of a political party at stake here?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wouldn’t it be of benefit to say that core human values and the nature of Australia as a supposedly liberal democratic society are on trial when a political party debates whether or not to continue to allow Australia to behave as a serial human rights abuser?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To put this another way. It would be deeply depressing if a major political party in Australia decided that because of the immaturity of the media it should close down debate about fundamental rights and values as they apply in the context of the most vulnerable people on the planet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What will it take for political journalists and the media generally in Australia to understand that robust, open debate in political parties is fundamentally important.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immature reporting of such debates turns intelligent people off politics. It is the stifling of freedom of thought and speech in political parties which has made them the plaything of careerists and factional thugs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A viable, healthy democracy allows vibrant debate about ideas, where political parties battle within themselves for philosophical coherence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is time for the media — the Canberra gallery in particular — to grow up.Lawyer Greg Barns was an adviser to NSW Liberal premier Nick Greiner and the Howard government. Disendorsed as the Liberal candidate for Denison in 2002, he later joined the Democrats. In 2013, he was Wikileaks Party campaign adviser.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | tasman : Tasmania | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document MRCURY0020150726eb7r00001</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020150726eb7r000ck" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘Outcast’ Shorten Left out in cold</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON, COMMENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>327 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR has two leaders: Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the applause Plibersek received from her gay marriage rally cry yesterday at the ALP conference in Melbourne, it is the deputy in name only who clearly has the numbers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any victories Shorten can claim to have achieved over the weekend – such as narrowly fending off a binding gay marriage bill and securing <b>boat</b> turn backs on <b>asylum</b> seekers - were pyrrhic victories at best.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His senior left-wing shadow ministers have sent a clear message to him: “We have the numbers, and you know it.” Shorten now leads a party furiously divided over key election issues, and one that has shown a willingness to abandon longevity and substance for short-term expediency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not since former NSW premier Morris Iemma was rolled at a state conference on power privatisation, and perhaps Calwell and Whitlam in the 1960s on US foreign policy, has an ALP conference been so hostile to a leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it shouldn’t surprise. The structural problems that began in NSW in 2007 have manifested in the Left ­finally flexing its new-found muscle at a national ALP conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten may have secured the numbers to allow him the luxury of adopting turnbacks, but it came with a very expensive price tag.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His own faction was rolled on the Israel/Palestine issue, he lost the numbers for a conscience vote on gay marriage, and he has been forced to adopt a renewable energy target that would elevate Australians’ electricity bills to among the highest in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To top it off, the conference voted to censure Martin Ferguson, one of the party’s last remaining voices of sanity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The optics for Shorten are now clear. The Left is in control of the Labor Party, and if he doesn’t dance to the beat of their drum, he is gone.It doesn’t get much uglier than this.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020150726eb7r000ck</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020150726eb7r000cf" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leader lacks substance as ALP talks fall short</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>776 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’S headline conference debates on same-sex marriage, voting rights of local branch members and the ALP’s objectives in government might have seemed important to those who inhabit the political back rooms but none will be of much interest to most voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And after three days of this navel gazing in Melbourne, it is clear the Labor Party has not yet accepted, does not understand and still has no plan to address why they lost power in 2013.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a belief within the party that the last Labor government’s downfall was all due to the leadership infighting and instability that dominated the Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard era. Of course that played a significant part. But Labor also lost office because of so much more. The starting point was a rejection by Australians of its misguided and ill-suited policy platform. The idea, for example, that an across-the-board profits tax could be imposed on our most vital industry – mining – without the agreement of the industry concerned, and even without the most basic consultation, was always a recipe for failure. Labor also lost the plot on carbon reduction policy when it not just took the lazy option of imposing a new tax but also broke a promise in the process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The biggest missed opportunity, then, of the weekend gabfest was the failure of Labor’s “comrades” to have a serious discussion about policy matters that Australians actually care about – for example, say, the country’s economic direction. The closest they came to it was a debate of sorts on trade, where Labor leader Bill Shorten gave an IOU to the radical left unions led by the CFMEU who want to scuttle the free-trade deal with China on grounds that are at best ill-informed and at worst xenophobic. Mr Shorten might well have achieved his aim of surviving the conference by not offending voters. But this is also where he fell short.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He delivered a message that was feel good in its content but lacked any real substance beyond his strategy of casting aside some of the baggage of Labor’s past policy mistakes. This was most evident in his approach to <b>asylum</b> seeker policy where he fought to adopt a commonsense mimicking of what the Coalition has done in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the benefit of hindsight, there is no doubt Labor made a mistake when – after being elected in 2007 – it unwound the very successful <b>asylum</b> seeker policies of the previous Howard government, which had not just prevented <b>boat</b> arrivals but also managed to keep out of detention families and children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More importantly, the Howard policies never saw a death at sea registered. And this was always the great failure of the Labor era. The loss of life – as so graphically recalled at the weekend conference by former immigration minister Tony Burke – was unacceptable. Any policy of any future government needs to ensure this never happens again. The Abbott Government has been successful in this endeavour and in the main has kept <b>asylum</b> seekers out of harm’s way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor therefore needed to copy the Abbott Government’s approach for the simple reason it works. This is an acceptance of reality by Labor, and one on which it will be marked down if it does not stick to it in future. Voters have not forgotten that in 2007 then-aspiring prime minister Kevin Rudd said he would turn back boats, yet in government he oversaw the most chaotic and loose border protection regime Australia has ever seen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is important for our political health that we have an Opposition that is united and strong behind its leader. While Mr Shorten survived this weekend with his reputation intact, it is not clear if he passed even this first hurdle. But what is also required for our system to be at its best is a contest of ideas in the lead-up to an election, as will happen sometime in the next year. Sadly, the Labor Party at its conference in Melbourne failed to provide a clear blueprint for the nation – particularly on economic reform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is why, as much as the backflip on <b>boat</b> turnbacks was a welcome move forward, Mr Shorten still has much work to do to prove to the voters that he deserves the nation’s top job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Responsibility for election comment is taken by Christopher Dore, corner of Mayne Rd & Campbell St, Bowen Hills, Qld 4006. Printed and published by NEWSQUEENSLAND (ACN 009 661 778). Contact details are available at www.couriermail.com.au/help/contact-us[http://www.couriermail.com.au/help/contact-us]</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ggaym : Same-Sex Marriage/Civil Union | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | glgbt : LGBT Rights | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | melb : Melbourne | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | victor : Victoria (Australia)</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020150726eb7r000cf</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150726eb7r0003x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>New plans add $450m to budget</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1038 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor will rely on taxpayer funds to deliver on deals at its national conference as major new policies add at least $450 million to federal budget outlays.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cost of the conference include­s promises to shield mining and manufacturing workers from the impact of an ambitious target for renewable energy, with union leaders issuing explicit demands for protection.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has also signed off on an increase in spending on border­ protection, including $450m more over the forward estim­ates for the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor delegates called for more spending on health and education, voicing support for the original Gonski reforms to boost school funding over six years, with no debat­e on spending restraint.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The economic debate was dominated by calls for higher taxes including an amendment to the party platform to give Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen the authority to pursue reforms to negative gearing that would raise more revenue from property investors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor will also look at ways to increase the tax burden on wealthier Australians after the conference backed a move by infra­structure spokesman Anthony Albanese to set a minimum tax rate for those on high incomes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While there will be a cost to the Opposition Leader’s commitment to double the humanitarian mig­rant intake to 27,000 places a year, the change will be phased in over a decade and the impact on national finances would not be revealed until after the next four years of the budget forward estimates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This means Labor will probably not have to set aside funds for the commitment in the costings it prepares for the next election, putting the burden off for another day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most expensive development could be the understanding that Mr Shorten appears to have reached with the union movement to support his goal of requiring 50 per cent of the nation’s electricity supply coming from renewable sources by 2030.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s pledge is expected to cause significant disruption to traditional industries, including coalmining and power generation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The leader moved the motion on the new target and arranged for it to be seconded by Tony Maher, the head of the mining and energy division of the <span class="companylink">Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Maher backed the policy but said a new government agency would have to be created to manage the redeployment of workers in related jobs and provide income support if “good jobs’’ were unavailable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This resolution, let me make it clear, provides an aspirational goal for renewables. It is not a mandat­ory target and this is critical as we have to bear in mind the potential cost implications for consumers and business,’’ Mr Maher said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And right now we don’t know what the cost of renewables will be in five years, let alone 15 years. And we don’t know what technologies will be available.’’ Mr Maher said the new party position included an “Australian first” of an agency dedicated to managing the “redeployment, retrain­ing and, if necessary, arrangin­g income support” for affec­ted workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The CFMEU leader noted the programs used in Europe to acknow­ledge the social obligations to help workers in those industries “If power stations close down, they cannot all close all once,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said workers should have access to vacancies at existing power stations. “It sounds sensible and you think it would happen automatically but, let me tell you through experience, the government will have to intervene to make it happen.’’ Mr Maher also said if good jobs were not available, there should be funding for early retirement or income­ support. “That is exactly what they did in Germany,’’ he said. “This has budgetary implications so I hope Labor endorses it with its eyes open.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Make no mistake, if you pass this resolution and Labor in government doesn’t deliver for workers, we will wage a concerted campaign to get what has been promised and we expect every single­ delegate here to support us.’’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE ISSUES TAX Labor will investigate whether high income earners should be required to pay at least a minimum average rate of tax on their total income, under Anthony Albanese's "Buffett Rule"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FREE TRADE The party appeased unions on free trade, voting that the Abbott government's ChinaAustralia FTA had sold Australian workers short</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXECUTIVE The Right and Left factions agreed to split the 20 positions on its national executive 10-all. This was a gain for the Left, which previously had only nine seats</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HEALTH The health debate on Friday afternoon included motions in support of protecting Medicare, moving towards universal dental healthcare, strengthening laws against LGBTI conversion therapy and providing access to medicinal cannabis</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RECONCILIATION Indigenous NT senator Nova Peris spoke in favour of a motion supporting commitment to developing a concrete proposition for constitutional recognition in genuine partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EDUCATION Government funding for private schools has been enshrined in the party's platform, with a recommitment to the Gonski system of needs-based, sector-blind funding</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CLIMATE CHANGE The party committed to a target of 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b>-SEEKERS Bill Shorten and immigration spokesman Richard Marles prevailed on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy as the Left of the party failed in its bid to have a motion rejecting <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore processing passed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PALESTINE A proposed platform amendment on the issue of recognising Palestine as a state was suddenly dropped, in favour of a much less controversial resolution in favour of a two-state solution</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FERGUSON An MUA-sponsored resolution, which "condemns Martin Ferguson whose self-serving public commentary is not in the interest of the party, party members or the labour movement", passed on voices</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WOMEN Conference voted on an affirmative action motion to take representation of women from 40 per cent now to 45 per cent in 2022 and 50 per cent in 2025</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GAY MARRIAGEWith the party's support, Shorten will legalised same-sex marriage in the first 100 days of a Labor government, and put pressure on Tony Abbott to allow Coalition MPs a vote on the issue in the meantime.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten’s wins come at a cost</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>943 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s wins come at a cost</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has strengthened his leadership by winning vital policy fights at Labor’s national conference, using the support of key unions to fight off vigorous challenges that would have damaged his authority.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader got his way in debates to endorse <b>boat</b> turnbacks, allow a free vote on same-sex marriage and take a cautious approach to party reform­ in outcomes where the Labor Left splintered on crucial decisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor’s internal tensions were laid bare in disputes over support for Mr Shorten on key questions, fuelling talk that Tanya Plibersek and Anthony Albanese were positioning themselves as potential leaders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The jostling for personal positio­n cast a cloud over Labor’s attempts to use the conference to assure voters that it could be trusted to form government at the next election and could manage­ border protection once in power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader’s victories also came with promises that will require generous budge­t spending, including programs to help workers who could lose their jobs under his risky new target for renewable energy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A deal on tougher border protectio­n policies, including turning back boats where safe to do so, came with a pledge to spend $450 million over the next four years on the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten relied heavily on key unions on the Left of the ALP to prevail in the conference debates, including the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy­ Union. The CFMEU added its voice to support for Mr Shorten in Left faction meetings on <b>boat</b> turnbacks, reinforcing his authority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While that debate was not linked directly to others, the union movement is expecting Mr Shorten and shadow ministers to campaign hard against a free-trade deal with China in order to extract changes that toughen the safeguards against easier visas for skilled migrant workers. Unions fighting the China trade deal include the CFMEU, the <span class="companylink">Australian Manufacturing Workers Union</span>, the <span class="companylink">Maritime Union of Australia</span> and the <span class="companylink">Electrical Trades Union</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader declared­ last night that the conference proved to voters that Labor was serious about taking social and economic reform to the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In every chapter of our platform we have offered views and propositions for change for a brighter future,” Mr Shorten told the closing session. “We will leave here with the fundamental challenge of the next election establish­ed. We believe that hope can triumph over fear, that optim­ism defeats pessimism.” Mr Shorten named health, education, jobs and renewable energy as key areas where Labor had update­d its policy platform with new propositions that would secure­ support among voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While small changes were made yesterday to democratise the party, union leaders helped to dilute the reforms to retain their power in the party’s peak councils, an outcome seen as a win for Mr Shorten and a defeat for the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten also got his way on a softer line on the recognition of Palestine, despite attempts by the Left to dictate policies that would hamstring the leader. But his decision to embrace an emissions trading scheme triggered a dispute yesterday over whether the impost could be labelled­ a “tax” — a question that helped bring down the last Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The personal tensions now shape Labor’s preparations for the next election amid calculations over whether the Left has the numbers to seize the leadership one day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A vote on same-sex marriage late yesterday turned into a test of authority for both Mr Shorten and Ms Plibersek. All sides conceded that the Left had a majority to enforce­ the deputy leader’s call for a binding vote for all MPs to support­ same-sex marriage despite­ their personal views.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But with some members of the Left at odds with the deputy leader’s position, including Mr Alban­ese and Victorian powerbroker Kim Carr, the faction agreed to a retreat that helped Mr Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result was an amendment that approved conscience votes on gay marriage for the next two terms of parliament, by which time most expect the matter to be settle­d in federal parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All parties sought to portray the compromise as a win for their side, highlighting the underlying contest for leadership status.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conference in-fighting includ­ed attacks on Ms Plibersek for playing a “double­ game” in the debate over <b>boat</b> turnbacks in a way that could diminish her influence within the Left. While she did not oppose the turnback policy in shadow cabinet and argued for it in meetings of the Left, she gave her vote to a proxy who cast it against Mr Shorten’s position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader’s allies also took aim at Mr Albanese for openly voting against the tougher line on <b>boat</b> turnbacks, even though he did not challenge the policy when shadow cabinet agreed on the tougher line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian was told that only one frontbencher, Penny Wong, expressed reservations about supporting <b>boat</b> turnbacks when the stance was decided in shadow cabinet. Senator Wong’s vote at the party conference was also given to a proxy who cast it against Mr Shorten’s position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Caucus members described the positioning within the Left as a quest to succeed Mr Shorten, with several arguing that Ms Plibersek had lost ground as a result of her handling of the passionate differences over <b>asylum</b>-seekers.Mr Albanese gained acclaim within the Left for taking his stand against turnbacks, raising suggestions that he could one day capitalise on the growing power of the Left to take the leadership.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gvote : Elections | gjob : General Labor Issues | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | gpol : Domestic Politics</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150726eb7r0002r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020150726eb7r0002v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leader left in the lurch</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PETER JEAN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>781 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten only just managed to save face amid opposition at the ALP National Conference, PETER JEAN reports</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BRAWLS at Labor national conferences are as inevitable as the arguments that break out in some families when they are forced to spend Christmas together.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Australians are thankful about only having to spend every other Christmas with the in-laws.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten must be relieved the Australian Labor Party’s supreme decision-making body usually only meets once every other year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten put his credibility as a leader on the line in order to get his way when almost 400 Labor delegates met in Melbourne at the weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Winning some victories within his own party was supposed to enhance Mr Shorten’s public image. It half worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten persuaded delegates to give a future Labor government the authority to use <b>boat</b> turnbacks to deter people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the increasingly powerful national Labor Left faction decided to flex its muscles over the issue of marriage equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and senior left-winger Anthony Albanese both support same-sex marriage. However, they baulked at the idea of expelling socially conservative Labor MPs and senators from the party for voting against amending the Marriage Act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten pointed out that a binding vote within Labor was inconsistent with efforts to persuade Prime Minister Tony Abbott that Liberal MPs should have a conscience vote on marriage equality. Deputy Labor Leader Tanya Plibersek and Senate Leader Penny Wong had other ideas and they had the numbers. Only a last-minute compromise saved Mr Shorten from public humiliation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor MPs and senators will have a conscience vote on gay marriage but only until the election after next.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The assumption is that by that time Australia will have had gay marriage for years, making the issue of a conscience vote irrelevant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In just a few short years, Labor will have gone from forcing members to oppose marriage equality, to having a conscience vote on the issue, to forcing members to support marriage equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Labor leader, Mr Shorten has to please two constituencies: the relatively small group of party members who made him the leader and the much larger group of Australian voters who have the power to make him Prime Minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Formally endorsing <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks was never going to make a large section of Labor Party members happy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Shorten believed it was essential to his ability to fight the Liberal argument that the election of a Labor Government would result in fleets of <b>asylum</b> seeker boats setting sail for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A more timid leader wouldn’t have tried to prosecute such a difficult case. But having a win within the party on a serious policy issue is a rite of passage for any Labor leader who aspires to be a successful prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten won the day on boats, partly because he promised a future Labor government would double Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake and increase transparency and oversight of border control, including offshore immigration detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Delegates may have been inclined to grant their leader a little more slack after he opened the conference with the announcement a Shorten government would introduce an emissions trading scheme and ramp up renewable energy sources to meet half of Australia’s electricity needs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victory on boats came without the help of Mr Shorten’s deputy. During the first minutes of the conference, Ms Plibersek made it clear not everyone would quietly back the leader on everything.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For us, unity has never meant conformity. And conformity has never meant silence,’’ she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Plibersek and Labor Senator Wong invoked their right to silence when the time came for conference to debate <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two senior left-wingers handed their conference voting rights to “proxy delegates” who toed their faction’s line by voting against <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They didn’t back their leader on the issue, but the pair weren’t photographed voting against him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese publicly argued against <b>boat</b> turnbacks and publicly accepted the decision of conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor conferences are more important than the equivalent Liberal Federal Council meetings. The Labor policy platform is technically binding on the party’s governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Public concern about power of the “faceless men’’ over elected Labor MPs helped keep the party out of power in the 1960s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten yesterday said the ability of union delegates to debate issues such as <b>boat</b> turnbacks passionately but respectfully was a sign of the party’s maturity.The big, sometimes dysfunctional Labor family needs to stick together if it is serious about making Tony Abbott a one-term prime minister.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leadership held to ransom, now he has to pay up</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DENNIS SHANAHAN POLITICAL EDITOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>536 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Leadership held to ransom, now he has to pay</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has won a political victory at the national conference, getting over the potentially leadership-destroying hurdles of turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats, an ambitious climate change policy and binding Labor MPs to vote for same-sex marriage.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader has succeeded in wrangling support for his favoured positions on turning back boats to Indonesia, setting a 50 per cent renewable energy target and letting Labor MPs have a conscience vote on same-sex marriage by using the Right, garnering concessions from the Left and putting his leadership at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the unacceptable choice of effectively ending Shorten’s authority and effectiveness as Labor leader factional leaders, parliamentary frontbenchers and the unions bargained on all fronts to ensure his short-term survival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those deals have come at a detrimental cost to Shorten, any elected Labor government and the grim and disciplined shadow cabinet unity since the election loss in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deals have highlighted Shorten’s weakened leadership, committed Labor to costly and damaging promises on compensation and free trade and revealed deep-seated factional and personal rivalries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The unspoken leadership positioning of recent months has been recognised at the conference with Anthony Albanese emerging as the more sophisticated Left leader, Tanya Plibersek being criticised simultaneously for not supporting the leader and secretly opposing the Left position on <b>boat</b> turnbacks while Shorten’s weakness was underlined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s short-term solutions have created the potential for long-term instability and poor ­policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten, via the work of Richard Marles as immigration spokesman, was able to drag Labor to the logical reality and electoral necessity of supporting turning back boats as the terrible requirement to stop deaths at sea. Yet the detail of the policy and the deal with the Left unions to ensure success means Tony Abbott can ­already question its credibility and comes with a debt Shorten will have to pay, particularly on trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On an emissions trading scheme and RET, Shorten has been able to offer the Left, via Mark Butler as environmental spokesman, an election centrepiece on climate change as part of a philosophical campaign against Abbott but has earned some ­resentment from the Right and risks a damaging “carbon tax” ­attack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deal on same-sex marriage putting off a binding vote has ­allowed Shorten to argue logically for a “free vote” within the Liberal Party without facing a revolt from some of his own conservative MPs and senators that could have ­affected the balance of power in the Senate. Plibersek’s warm support and praise for Shorten in this debate as the first Labor leader to “nail his colours to the mast” on same-sex marriage was public support for the leader and a concession on her own position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The irony of all these outcomes is that the Left, in virtual control of the ALP conference for the first time since the 1980s, has been ­instrumental in delivering Right positions because Shorten held his own leadership to ransom.Shorten’s problem is that he is going to have to pay the ransom himself as well.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Unions still rule OK, despite minor reforms</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TROY BRAMSTON, COMMENT   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the delegates to Labor’s 47th national conference exited Melbourne after three days of vigorous debate and deal-making, Bill Shorten emerged with his leadership strengthened, Anthony Albanese was diminished and the unions remain dominant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten gave a bold opening address that ticked all the boxes for Labor’s true believers and signposted to voters he intends to fight the next election with a big agenda. Nobody can accuse Shorten of lacking courage. And his view prevailed on all key issues at the conference.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Half way through the conference — the first in Melbourne since 1969 — many delegates were asking each other: “How do you think Bill’s going?” By the end of the second day, they were asking: “What’s Albo up to?” Albanese left Melbourne a weakened figure, especially in his own Left faction. He tried to rally the Left to oppose Shorten on turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats. He lashed Shorten’s position as “weak on humanity”, but he was the only Left shadow minister to vote against Shorten’s position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shadow cabinet agreed to support the option of <b>boat</b> turnbacks ahead of conference. Albanese did not speak against turnbacks in shadow cabinet. Nevertheless, Shorten told Albanese and Tanya Plibersek they were free to voice their conscience on this issue at conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Plibersek spoke in the Left caucus about the broader immigration policy and acknowledged it was difficult for many to accept. But she decided she could not oppose Shorten at the conference. Plibersek watched the debate with Shorten’s wife, Chloe Bryce.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Penny Wong also refused to publicly challenge Shorten. Nor would Kim Carr. Others in the soft Left, including the CFEMU, joined them. They were unhappy when Albanese implied that, unlike them, he could not remain silent on turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the Left oppose <b>boat</b> turnbacks. So Plibersek and Wong handed their votes to proxy delegates who voted that way. But they did not openly defy Shorten at the conference. That was crossing a line. Carr, who was on the conference floor, did not vote for the motion opposing turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bottom line is that Shorten — and immigration spokesman Richard Marles — had a significant victory. Albanese overplayed his hand, lost the debate and disappointed many of his own Left colleagues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Albanese also upset the Right. He moved a motion urging the party to consider a special tax on the wealthy — the so-called “Buffett Rule”. Once the inner Left was dedicated to lifting the poor out of poverty, not attacking the rich. It is the politics of envy. It smacks of class warfare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Albanese’s “Buffett Rule” motion blindsided Shorten and Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen. They had little prior warning. To avoid a clash at the conference, Shorten and Bowen agreed on the basis that a Labor government only had to consider it. So Albanese sparked new fights with colleagues on the Left and Right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conference also witnessed a change of leadership in the factions. NSW Labor secretary Jamie Clements takes over as national convener of the Right. Tim Ayres, the NSW secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, continues to play a lead role in the national Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahead of the conference, Ayres proposed that union delegates to state conferences, appointed by union secretaries, be given a 50 per cent say in Senate preselections and in the election of national conference delegates. This would be weighted equally against the votes of rank and file party members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ayres thinks the party should democratise, but not unions. So in NSW he argues the votes of about 20,000 party members should be equally weighted against 400 union delegates appointed by 22 unions. There was no agreement at conference on preselection reform. Unions will continue to dominate upper house preselections though state conferences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was some organisational reform. Members will now directly elect 150 delegates to national conference. A review of the redundant 1921 socialist objective will be conducted with a view to rewriting it. And a new gender equality objective across the party was adopted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although union membership will no longer be a requirement of party membership, Labor remains firmly in the grip of unions. The advice of party and union elders to recast the relationship has fallen on deaf ears. Former ACTU president Martin Ferguson was censured for supporting electricity privatisation during the NSW election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Friday, former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty spoke to party activists at the Victorian Trades Hall. He said it was time for unions to cede power to party members. He wants unions to focus on growing their members, developing ideas and producing candidates for parliament on merit. “Unions are an integral and important part of this show, but they can never own it,” he said. “Nobody should ever aspire to ever own it … It is for participating in and believing in.” Despite union leaders yesterday referring to an “equal partnership” with the party, Kelty does not support this. He recalled working with Bob Hawke and Paul Keating in the 1980s and 90s on the Accord between government and unions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Can you imagine walking into Paul Keating and saying, ‘Mate, we’ve got partnership. We’re 50-50. And we want half the power? He’d say: ‘F..k off, mate’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In all the discussions I had with Hawke and Keating, not once did I ever say, ‘You know, we’ve got a partnership with the party’. You know why? Because they have got to do things for the whole of the community.” Yet unions seem to think it is their party.While Shorten left the conference with his authority enhanced, and important decisions were made to reform Labor’s policies, philosophy and structure, be in no doubt that unions still dominate the party. Reforming the party-union nexus must remain on the agenda for future conferences.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE: STEFANIE BALOGH   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s pledge to increase the <b>refugee</b> humanitarian intake to 27,000 people a year, a key factor in winning support for a policy shift on <b>boat</b> turnbacks, will have no immediate hit to the budget because it is staggered over a decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokes­­man Richard Marles won backing for his comprehensive package of measures, and in the process encouraged­ Labor to confront its position on <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen, a former immigration minister, echoed the warning from Tony Burke that people-smugglers would ruthlessly set out to test Labor’s resolve in government and attempt to overwhelm any border protection measures. But he said the party was serious about standing its ground on having the option of <b>boat</b> turnbacks in its ­policy arsenal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Should we win the next election, this is a very important point, we are acutely aware, that before we’re probably even sworn in as ministers, there will be people- smugglers considering their ­options … they will test any new administration,’’ Mr Bowen said on Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We want the incoming minister to have the ability to say, to give the instructions: ‘If it’s safe to do so, take whatever action needs to be taken’.’’ Labor now goes to the election with a suite of measures that ­includes abolishing temporary protection visas and dedicating $450 million over the forward estim­ates to the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles told The Australian the extra funding for the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> would be found from savings in the immigration portfolio. He also said Labor was conscious of the budgetary impact of increasing the humanitarian intake and he ­believed it was important “we go to the election with a credible plan to return the budget to surplus’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coalition sources have told The Australian the current cost of the 13,750 humanitarian intake is about $1 billion a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles acknowledged that over time there would be a “bigger cost associated with the humanit­arian intake’’. “We are talking about it over a 10-year period,’’ he said. “There would be plenty out there that would hope we could be able to do it sooner — we would obviously love to do it sooner.’’ Labor will match the Abbott government’s increase in the human­itarian intake from the current 13,750 places to 18,750 by 2018.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will be matching them during that period in terms of the increase and then we will continue increasing it from that period through until 2025 to take it to 27,000,’’ Mr Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, however, told Sky News’s Australian Agenda he had reserv­ations about Labor’s proposed increas­e in the <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now my fear is that this has been provided simply as a sop to the Left to try to get them to agree in relation to the watered-down turnback policy, but what it does essentially is say that Australia is more generous than the United States, than the United Kingdom, than Canada, than other European countries,’’ Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton also claimed Labor would face difficulty with <b>boat</b> turnbacks because members of the Shorten team remained divided.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor Party frontbencher Anthony Albanese, who voted against turnbacks, argued that Labor had strengthened its posit­ion heading into the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I believe that what our policy will do, that we’ve adopted — particularly the regional solution through funding for the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> along with the range of other measures that are there — will ensure­ indeed that boats don’t have to be turned around. Because I don’t believe the boats will come,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EDITORIAL P13</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT Go Back to Where You Came From WHEN Tuesday to Thursday, SBS, 8.30pm</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">War zone: Andrew Jackson, Kim Vuga and Nicole Judge after their close call with <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>. Documentary goes back for more</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A third series of Go Back to Where You Came From is as timely now as it was at its controversial beginning, writes Nick Galvin.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I want people who are happy to express how they are feeling and express their thoughts and opinions. Rick McPhee</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I t's four years since the first series of Go Back to Where You Came From, and even producer Rick McPhee was unsure whether a third series was justified. "After series two we were thinking that was probably it," he says. "But then, when the government changed and there were new policies, SBS came back to us and said, 'Should we go again?' " And, in what is perhaps a reflection of how divisive the issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers continues to be, the filmmakers swiftly concluded another series was justified. "It's still a hot-button topic now as much as it was four years ago," McPhee says. Conceptually, the latest Go Back is broadly similar to the first two outings, following in reverse the journeys of individual <b>asylum</b> seekers. But this time there is a fresh emphasis on the Abbott government's much- touted "turnback" or "towback" policies. McPhee and his team know only too well that the success or otherwise of this style of "constructed documentary" depends on the quality of the participants. An enormous amount of time and money goes into finding just the right mix of human ingredients to make the social experiment fizz and sparkle on screen. Potential participants are rigorously screened and even interviewed by a psychologist. "I want people who are happy to express how they are feeling and express their thoughts and opinions," McPhee says. "There's no point taking someone who just won't speak." Viewers also have a natural desire to see some development in the views of the participants, for them to take an emotional voyage that parallels their physical journey. However, shifting from a long-held political position can often come at significant personal cost. "The psychologist told me that to change your mind is actually a really big deal if that opinion forms part of who you are," McPhee says. "You can put a lot of pressure on your social situation. If you have a different opinion from your family and friends you can be ostracised." One of the participants, Andrew Jackson, a Melbourne teacher, moderates his hardline views significantly over the three episodes. Jackson's mental turmoil and emotionally charged response to seeing conditions in a Jordanian <b>refugee</b> camp and visiting Syria,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">where they come under fire from ISIS insurgents, is in stark contrast to that of Kim Vuga, a self-described freelance journalist from Townsville. Vuga administers a <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page called "Stop the <b>boat</b> people" (motto: "This is Australia: We eat meat, we drink beer and we speak f--kin' English."). Months after the end of filming she posted videos of herself and a small group of friends picketing outside the Townsville offices of federal Member for Herbert Ewen Jones brandishing placards declaring "Refugees suck Aust dry" and "Multicuture (sic) is a failure".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McPhee says he was under no illusions that Vuga would move far - if at all - from her uncompromising views. Vuga saw the program as a "once-in-a- lifetime" opportunity and a chance to travel outside Australia. "I had to get a passport," she says. "I hadn't been out of Australia. I'd been to New Zealand when I think I was 12. Technically, I really hadn't been anywhere." Vuga confirms that the experience has done nothing to change her mind that <b>asylum</b> seekers are a "threat to our security". Vuga and Jackson were joined by Nicole Judge on their trip to Jordan and Syria. Judge is a high-profile whistleblower who worked on Manus Island and gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into the death of Reza Berati. But Vuga calls Judge a "traitor" in the first of the programs, and was unwilling last week to revise her opinion. "I still see Nicole as a traitor to our country," she says. "Nicole knows this." Meanwhile, relations between Vuga and Jackson were, if anything, even more poisonous. "She is a revolting person," Jackson says. "She is not a nice person." (Vuga describes Jackson as "annoying" and "quite rude".) The pair clash frequently on screen as Jackson begins to question his own views and how much he "deceived" himself in the past. He now says when he in the past applied</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">labels such as "country shoppers" to <b>asylum</b> seekers he was merely avoiding harsh truths. "I could then put that problem in a little box and close it and not think about it because if you do think about it it's really painful," he says. "I've spent the nine months since the show trying to work out why I have been such a bastard in my life. "We're born in to the lucky country and you have two choices. One is to try to help people - and in some ways you realise that's impossible - and the other is to go, 'I'm feeling guilty about this. How do I not feel guilty about this? I'll somehow make it their fault'." One of the highlights of the series is watching Jackson struggle with his conscience and question some deeply held beliefs. "Once it started happening in the show, I accepted it," he says. "I could have fought it but that's not then being true to myself or I could go, 'This is happening, it's on TV. Great. You're going to get to watch me change my mind'."</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tuesday, July 28 Drug forum host Tom Tilley.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Hotplate WIN, 7.30pm Yes, it's another competitive cooking show, but one with, you guessed it, a difference. The Hotplate is, somewhat inexplicably, hosted by Tom Parker Bowles, minor almost-royal (son of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall) and British food critic, and acclaimed Melbourne chef and (genuinely groundbreaking) restaurateur Scott Pickett, and pits "unsung local restaurant heroes" against each other in a battle to win $100,000 and their "food dream". The twist here is that the restaurants - one from each state - will be judged on all aspects of "the restaurant experience" by their fellow competitors.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Go Back to Where You Came From SBS, 8.30pm In what SBS is billing as a "television event", this new season of the provocative documentary series is arguably more relevant than when it first screened four years ago ï¿½ even if it might be more likely to change minds if it screened on a commercial network. In an interesting twist, one of this series' "ordinary Australians", Davy, came to Australia as a <b>refugee</b> himself from Vietnam in 1980 ï¿½ but, he says, he "came the right way" and they are queue-jumpers. Then there's Kim, who has a "stop the boats" <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> campaign and genuinely believes refugees are all "terrorists"; Nicole, a detention-</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">centre whistleblower; sisters Jodi and Renee, who hold opposing views on the issue, and school teacher Andrew, who considers <b>asylum</b> seekers are putting our "culture" in jeopardy. In this first episode the six move in with former "<b>boat</b> people" before taking a reverse journey back to Indonesia aboard the kind of fishing vessel used by people smugglers - this is where it gets interesting/harrowing. Gripping viewing, even if its premise can feel a little forced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians on Drugs: Presented by Tom Tilley</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ABC2, 9.30pm Part of ABC2's week of drug- themed programming 2HIGH, exploring stories of drugs ï¿½ the war thereon, the costs, the allure and the consequences ï¿½ from Australia and around the world, this live studio discussion is billed as a "brutally honest" conversation. While it all sounds a tad after- school special, Australians On Drugs has the potential to be more engaging than Q&A.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kylie Northover</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Rifts and ridicule dog Labor's Left</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1057 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Labor Party has emerged from its 2015 national conference having finally resolved workable positions on two issues that have befuddled, constrained and tripped it for more than a decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seeker policy and climate change are two of the most difficult political issues - and ones requiring complex policy solutions - for governments around the world.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the ALP, they have a particularly unhappy history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On <b>asylum</b> seekers, Labor has been left floundering in the wake of a conservative hard line against which it instinctively reacted in 2001, and rejected on the base of advice in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Action on climate change proved a powerful boost to its sweep into office in 2007, yet its incapacity to land a policy, and hold its ground, in the face of a relentless Coalition attack proved disastrous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is why the capacity of this weekend's national conference to go badly wrong for Labor and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was so great.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was not just the real risk that votes would not go the right way for Shorten, but that allowing a genuine passionate debate that has not been too stage-managed is always risky.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the <b>asylum</b> seeker issue, the passion meant it was vital that everyone felt that they had been properly heard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was even at one point the risk that - facing defeat - the Left may not move an amendment to explicitly stop the party supporting turn-backs, leaving the issue silent and open to Coalition interpretation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That the debate was a public and very genuine tussle conducted in an environment not assumed to have been pre-determined by factional discipline gave it a great authenticity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten described it on Sunday as real "tipping point" for Labor not just in policy but in the way it had been conducted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compelling leading speeches by a new generation of Labor MPs - Andrew Giles and Richard Marles - helped reframe the debate in terms of the realities of policy and politics in 2015, rather than being framed by the party's sorry history on this issue over more than a decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> turn-backs are without doubt an emblematic issue in the <b>asylum</b>-seeker debate but, by focusing on this point alone, Labor has given itself room to manoeuvre to present a more compassionate set of policies to appease its Left, even though the notable silence in the policy about what will actually happen to refugees stuck on Manus Island is at least as disturbing an issue as turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In pragmatic political terms, the suite of policy prescriptions on boosting the <b>refugee</b> intake and treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers helps buffer Labor against the threat of the Greens on its Left and will appeal to many voters in the centre who are uncomfortable about the demonisation of <b>asylum</b> seekers by the Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has already begun an attack on the authenticity of Labor's commitment to turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the policy position adopted at conference means the Opposition can move on now in a much less defensive political position on this issue than it has been able to do for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens clearly emerged as Labor's political focus in the climate change debate at the ALP conference on Saturday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This debate, and the subsequently confirmed platform, cement renewable energy at the centre of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the ALP's policy, rather than an emissions trading scheme.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Be clear that the proposal to reach 50 per cent renewable energy is a 'goal', not a target.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no suite of government subsidies attached to this proposal at this point. There is a presumption that much of the task of getting to the goal will now just come about as a result of changing technology, consumer preference, falling prices and industry certainty about policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pieces of the climate change policy puzzle that are still to be sorted by the parliamentary party are the ambition of the new emissions trading scheme; the emissions reduction goal Labor will set before the next election (the push by conference was to adopt at the least the Climate Change Authority's 30 per cent by 2025) and; how to meet the call for an agency to assist workers at old power stations who lose their jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Renewable energy is a clear winner among voters, no matter the muddier politics of carbon prices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition will still attack on carbon prices but the new platform once again gives Labor a chance to also go on the attack rather than simply defend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All this bodes well for Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the two political leaders - and their ambivalent relationships with the electorate - being the great weakness for both parties, Labor recognises, and is braced for, the dirtiest and most personal campaign in years which will be focused intensely on the Opposition leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has begun with the Royal Commission on trade unions and in Liberal advertising material that has emerged over the past week focusing on his union links and playing up his role in the demise of two Labor prime ministers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Labor remains ahead in the two party preferred vote and if it can lock in its credentials on the Left - or even if the Greens vote is sustained - it can focus its attention on trying to win back disaffected voters who switched to the Coalition and Tony Abbott in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The truly stunning political failure at the Conference has been that of the party's Left. For decades, the Left has complained and argued that if only it had a decent hold on the numbers at conference, it would have a chance to truly influence policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet having finally got to a point of holding half the numbers at conference, the Left's leadership indulged itself and ended up looking both impossibly split and ridiculous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, there were policy accommodations for the Left, but the incapacity of the parliamentary and union left to have a united set of objectives hampered it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Deputy parliamentary leader Tanya Plibersek was left exposed for apparently having one position on <b>asylum</b> seekers in shadow cabinet, another position in the Left Caucus, and a third on the conference floor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a problem for Plibersek's own ambitions, as well as an obvious rift within Labor's leadership that the Coalition will seek to exploit.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gclimt : Climate Change | gcat : Political/General News | genv : Environmental News | gglobe : Global/World Issues | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020150726eb7r0001u</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NORTHT0020150727eb7q00029" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten wins vote despite rebellion</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>188 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten’s own deputy Tanya Plibersek has joined a front bench rebellion led by leadership rival Anthony Albanese as ALP civil war erupted over tow backs to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As protesters shouted “drown Shorten, not refugees’’, Mr Shorten’s own leadership group including Ms Plibersek and Labor’s Senate leader Penny Wong refused to vote with their leader.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both women were missing in action as the votes were cast, delivering their proxy votes to the Left to ensure that their opposition to <b>boat</b> turn backs was registered. Mr Albanese cast his vote against tow backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Shorten stared down the open divisions to win the vote on the floor of the ALP conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Labor confirmed it would also retain the option of using Tony Abbott’s orange lifeboats to tow <b>asylum</b> seekers back to Indonesia if elected, it pledged to end the secrecy over turn backs.Stealing from US President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan, “Yes We Can’’ Mr Shorten said Labor could have a policy that was compassionate and increase the <b>refugee</b> intake while being tough on border security.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NORTHT0020150727eb7q00029</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020150726eb7q0004u" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor returns to Rudd’s campaign</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PIERS AKERMAN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>870 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BlLL Shorten says he has learnt from Labor’s mistakes but that certainly hasn’t stopped him ­repeating them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If anything, he has been channelling the same grandiose policy ideas outlined by Kevin Rudd in the 2007 campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The old themes of stop-the-boats and turnbacks, a ramped-up scare campaign about global warming, a promise of new carbon taxes and expensive investments in unreliable renew-able energy, even a totally ineffectual 50 per cent emissions reduction by 2030, mirroring Rudd’s promise of a 60 per cent cut by 2050, have all made a comeback.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recycling is clearly the Labor way, even though the nation is still deeply in debt and borrowing billions to pay for the failed policies of the last Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With an election looming within the next 12 months, Shorten is pitching his spiel to Greens and the Left and not to average Australians or even traditional Labor Party members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Labor’s true believers may have given his speech pro forma applause on Friday there was a distinct lack of spontaneity and enthusiasm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They had heard it all before. Labor MPs present appeared disengaged, Shorten’s closest supporters looked concerned. As always, the biggest disconnect was between his rhetoric and any cost considerations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trying to gloss over the fury within the party over his eleventh-hour backflip on <b>boat</b> turnbacks, Shorten avoided any mention of what he and his supporters euphemistically describe as a policy “option” by introducing shadow immigration spokesman Richard Marles and noting that he will deliver policies that are “safe and humane”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That opacity covers a lot of water and will be seized upon by people smugglers waiting offshore to resume their lethal trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It puts back into play what former Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono once called the Australian “sugar on the table”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor Left has ­demanded a doubling of the current <b>refugee</b> intake of 13,750 places as a quid pro quo for its support for the turnback policy, an increase on Labor’s promise of a 20,000 per year humanitarian intake it took to the last election of 20,000 per year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are obvious implications arising from such a promised increase as doubling the <b>refugee</b> intake would cost something in the region of an extra $2.7 billion over the forward estimates, not including the longer term costs such as welfare dependency, which is a growing transgenerational problem in some communities which have failed to integrate into the general population. For the same amount of money the current social services grants program could be more than tripled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is also the issue of the very real anger that such an ­increase of new arrivals would create in the migrant community where many have been awaiting the arrival of relatives through regular channels for years and are justifiably concerned that their relations would once again lose their places in the migration queue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is also real anxiety about the ability to absorb any increase in refugees into the workforce when the current numbers of unemployed are expected to increase with the final phasing out of car ­manufacturing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Traditional Labor Party voters will stand to lose the most under an expanded <b>refugee</b> resettlement program ­unless Shorten and Marles ­believe that the refugees will largely comprise doctors, ­engineers, plumbers and ­electricians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The same Labor voters will also be stung the most by ­higher power prices should Labor get elected and institute the Shorten-Rudd energy ­policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s grand vision for energy relies on nonsensical claims that renewable energy helps generate lower prices, creates jobs and investment and pays for itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If any of this was so, the world’s coal mines would all be closed and there would be no need for further debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The truth is all forms of ­renewable energy are more ­expensive than traditional coal power and the jobs and the ­investment aren’t sustainable without heavy subsidies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Renewables only pay for themselves with a hefty dollop of taxpayers’ funding. Shorten sees the sunshine that falls on Australia as a great natural advantage, and doubtless it is, but it is worth more as a tourist magnet than as a power generator.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far greater natural advantages are the cheap and accessible coal and natural gas reserves Labor wants to lock up to the disadvantage of the nation and the power hungry millions in other nations, particularly the Third World countries which actually seem to enjoy as much sunlight as we do but don’t appear to hold it in the same high regard as the Greens and Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In May, 2007, Rudd laid out the blueprint for his energy policy and carbon tax, stressing the urgency of his idea by saying “an effective emissions trading scheme must recognise the need to act now ... as soon as possible to minimise the costs of inaction because economic modelling clearly shows that early action is far less ­costly than delayed action”.The reality was that inaction would have been a lot less expensive and less lethal than Rudd’s energy and border protection policy proved to be then and will be again if Labor should win the next election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020150726eb7q0004u</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020150726eb7q0004i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>BILL’S <b>BOAT</b> BID STIRS MUTINY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAMANTHA MAIDEN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>362 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten’s deputy Tanya Plibersek has joined a frontbench rebellion led by leadership rival Anthony Albanese as war erupted inside the ALP over towing back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As protesters shouted “drown Shorten, not refugees’’, Mr Shorten’s own leadership group, including Ms Plibersek and Labor’s Senate leader Penny Wong, refused to vote with their leader.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both women were missing during voting, giving their proxy votes to the Left to ensure their opposition to <b>boat</b> turnbacks was registered. Mr Albanese cast his vote against towbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Shorten won the vote on the floor of the ALP conference on a show of hands without formal counting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Labor confirmed it would retain the option of using Tony Abbott’s orange lifeboats to tow <b>asylum</b> seekers back to Indonesia if elected, it pledged to end the secrecy over turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten said Labor could have a policy that was compassionate and increased Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake while being tough on border security. He warned that any refusal to countenance towbacks risked a return to <b>asylum</b> seekers drowning at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is why a Labor Government must have the option of turning boats around, when it is safe,’’ Mr Shorten told the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s war on boats policy prompted the Government to suggest Mr Shorten would run up a “white flag’’ on boats if elected, claiming “hundreds of thousands of people’’ would again arrive illegally by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Delegates wept at the Left faction meetings that saw Mr Albanese publicly accuse Mr Shorten’s supporters of “verballing’’ him on support for towbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Frontbencher Tony Burke told delegates that 33 <b>asylum</b> seekers died when he was Labor Immigration Minister and he kept the name of the youngest, a 10-week-old baby Abdul Jafari, on his desk for the duration of his tenure in the job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor MP Andrew Giles was opposed to towbacks because they were “inherently unsafe’’.Labor also formally adopted the introduction of an emissions trading scheme if they win the next election and an aspirational target to ensure 50 per cent of electricity comes from renewables by 2030.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>CRITIC'S CHOICE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MELINDA HOUSTON   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1021 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TV HIGHLIGHTS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">VILLAGE VETS Series return Thursday 8.30pm, Lifestyle RATING: 4/5</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To be honest, I was a bit lukewarm on the first season of this series. The locations, around Shoalhaven, were lush and lovely and there was plenty of diverse veterinary action and adorable animals. However, the vets themselves - James Carroll and Anthony Bennett - were harder to love (at least for me). There was a slightly aggressive blokiness to their manner and the distinct feeling they were putting on a show for the cameras that created an uncomfortable vibe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, time - and perhaps a slight rethink from the producers - has mellowed them. This season, while the bad puns and clunky banter continue to flow, it all feels softer and warmer. In terms of content, this first episode is also a cracker. The two chaps open by sharing a general monologue about the way an established vet practice exposes you to the full cycle of life: birth to death and all the ups and downs in between. Then the episode explores the theme, starting with a little dog producing a huge litter of puppies, going on to cover everything from pigs to lizards, and closing with Carroll having to confront the mortality of his own beloved kelpie, Bailey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a beautiful arc, beautifully handled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RESTAURANT REVOLUTION New series Tuesday to Thursday 7.30pm, Seven RATING: 3.5/5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having already exhausted the My Restaurant Rules brand, but clearly keen to capitalise on the success of its My (Insert Noun) Rules franchise, this week Seven launches My Restaurant Rules Redux. No previews were available, but the network knows what it's doing with these things and we predict a polished production with some serious industry talent on board. The only remaining question is: are we over food yet?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE BACHELOR Series return Wednesday 7.30pm, Ten RATING: 3.5/5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However seriously (or not) you've taken previous series of The Bachelor, anyone who has since watched UnREAL can't help but come to this season with a heightened sense of its absurdity. But is that necessarily a bad thing? It's the kind of show where the attraction has always included a strong car-crash component, and wondering what exactly is going on just out of shot somehow makes things all the more compelling. This week, Sam meet his bachelorettes for the first time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SING IT ON New series Thursday 9.30pm, [V] RATING: 3.5/5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you're jonesing for a bit of Glee-type action, this series should hit the spot. Its shtick is that it's the "real-life Perfect Pitch", following four college a cappella groups as they strive to make it to (and win) "the nationals". In the first ep we meet our songsters and watch as they recruit new voices to their clubs at the beginning of the school year. From the college towns to the bubbly, idiosyncratic players, it's bright, breezy and entertaining.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CRITICAL New series Tuesday 8.30pm, <span class="companylink">BBC</span> First RATING: 3.5/5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'm not sure how this format is going to play out in the long term (it feels like it might restrict character and plot development), but the first instalment is certainly gripping. Set in a state-of-the-art emergency department, the action takes place in real time, as the team fights to save a life while dealing with personal matters and hospital politics. Some of the characters feel a bit 2D, but the cast, headed by Lennie James, is strong and there's undoubtedly plenty of action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM Series return Tuesday to Thursday 8.30pm, SBS RATING: 4/5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the tagline says, the boats might have stopped, but the debate hasn't. Certainly, this third iteration of SBS's controversial award-winning series feels timely. It's also confronting, thought-provoking, moving and difficult to watch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Initially it feels like the scales have been weighted a little towards the "go back" camp: only two of the six participants are vocal in their support of refugees and criticism of government policy. But it's more subtle and fluid than that. The other four represent a broad sweep of opinion, from the unashamedly redneck to the educated and concerned. They include Davy, who, as an eight-year-old, was put on a <b>boat</b> by his parents, came to Australia as a Vietnamese <b>refugee</b>, and is now a vigorous supporter of Operation Sovereign Borders. This series is a fascinating insight into human nature. At times, the shouty righteousness of the "welcome refugees" faction is as off-putting as the xenophobia of their opponents. It's intriguing to see the way people process exactly the same information. And it's compelling to see how people react when confronted with the human reality of their preconceived theories. One pothole that does emerge is the government's refusal to allow filming inside our detention centres. It denies us the opportunity to make up our own minds. It also undercuts the whole process here: whatever these people went in thinking about detention centres remains unchallenged. Elsewhere, the six participants have the opportunity to physically test their beliefs and it is to the credit of all six that they tough out what must be an extraordinarily challenging ordeal, physically and emotionally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Go Back to Where You Came From is an opportunity for us to get a taste of that ordeal, and perhaps reassess our own positions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BOSCH New series Wednesday 9.30pm, SBS RATING: 3.5/5</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Books by Michael Connelly. The Wire's Eric Overmyer writing and producing. Sons of Anarchy's Titus Welliver in the lead role. You can smell the testosterone, which is a strength and a weakness of Bosch. Its toughness; its hard-edged, sexy production values. This is old-school renegade cop stuff. On the downside, I want to cry when a male lead attracts the amorous attention of a woman young enough to be his daughter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MELINDA HOUSTON is the Sun-Herald television critic and an author.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Is Plibersek in ‘witness protection’?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»JAMES MASSOLA   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>436 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek has drawn fire from her own side for being in ‘‘witness protection’’ over the ALP’s decision to adopt the Coalition’s policy of turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And fellow front-bencher Anthony Albanese has criticised Left colleagues, including Ms Plibersek and senate leader Penny Wong, during a closed-door meeting, for ‘‘doing nothing’’ to fight the ALP’s adoption of the policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Plibersek and Senator Wong – who are both members of the leadership group – voted by proxy for the Left motion to avoid publicly opposing leader Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, who publicly backed a motion to explicitly forbid Labor from performing <b>boat</b> turn backs in government, told the Left delegates meeting that ‘‘unlike other caucus members I won’t just sit there and do nothing’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘This [<b>boat</b> turn backs] is a red line we cannot cross,’’ he said, adding that he would vote for the Left’s motion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queensland MP Terri Butler stood in for Ms Plibersek and ACT Senator Katy Gallagher stood in for Senator Wong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Behind the scenes, MS Plibersek has been under intense pressure from her political allies in the Left to publicly oppose the adoption of <b>boat</b> turn backs. But Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, who is seen by some in the party as a future leader and is a rival to Mr Albanese in the Left, has had to balance that pressure with the need to support Mr Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One Left delegate said Ms Plibersek had ‘‘barely spoken’’ on the issue during meetings and appeared to be in ‘‘witness protection’’, to the disappointment of many political allies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another Left delegate said Ms Plibersek had ‘‘put her duties as deputy leader of the Labor Party first’’ and that she was ‘‘much more hard line than Albo [Mr Albanese] on <b>asylum</b> seekers’’, though that delegate said that at least some in the Left understood the bind the deputy leader was in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A third delegate said Ms Plibersek’s absence from public debate over the issue showed she was ‘‘not used to serious scrutiny’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But an ally of Ms Plibersek’s said she had focused her energy, during negotiations over the policy, on doubling the <b>refugee</b> intake and securing additional funding for the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>– both outcomes that were secured.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘She has been genuinely conflicted on turn backs, as deputy the need for solidarity has been at the top of her mind. That’s why she hasn’t bought in to public debate at all, it wouldn’t have helped the leader,’’ the ally said.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kylie Northover   </td></tr>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aussie rock legend Mark Seymour is mixing the personal with the political, writes KYLIE NORTHOVER.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Hunters and Collectors frontman Mark Seymour has something of a reputation as a gruff bloke, so it made sense when his record label said he'd meet me at a steakhouse known for its essentially all-meat menu: big, bloody steaks. Man's food.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it transpires that Seymour hasn't chosen the venue himself ("Whoever decided on this is having fun ... I didn't!") and also that the legendary singer-songwriter is nowhere near as gruff as he might sometimes appear, though he concedes he's not much of a "foodie". "I spend a lot of time on tour and eating when you're on the road becomes really perfunctory," he says. "I have to be extremely malleable when it comes to food."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seymour, who turns 59 today, has just released his ninth post-Hunters album, and the third with his current band, the Undertow. The compositions on Mayday - the title is a reference to both the emergency signal and to Australia's Labour Day - reflect Seymour's evolution in songwriting and are more "narrative-driven" than much of his past work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seymour says his style has become "a lot more didactic". "It's quite structured storytelling now. The way I frame the lyrics is more ... declaiming, and I tend to sing as [if] I'm slightly distanced. Even though I deal with quite personal things ... there's a lot of descriptions of the physical world around me. I wanted to document a feeling and how it materialises and the observations of things and people around me."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The album is also something of a musing on where Australia stands and Seymour's dismay with the direction in which he sees us heading. It's both a political and emotional record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't think it's strident ... But it's definitely the most political record I've made."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In more than one track, Seymour addresses the hairy topic of <b>asylum</b> seekers. Two Dollar Punter, for example, is "dedicated to all who came here by <b>boat</b>". He'd like to think that as a "guy who gets up in rooms and sings songs", people take notice. "I think it's ... part of the national conversation and people are interested. I know I'm interested in public life in Australia. I'm deeply attached to this country and I want the best for it," he says. "But I can't say I'm proud of it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which might well make him unpopular with certain members of his audience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That's right; it's difficult to even say that now. The conversation that is taking place in public life about where we're going is becoming narrower and narrower and that worries me - you know, dissent and critical discourse is not being heard. And I'm entitled to my opinion."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we chew through our steaks at Vlado's in Melbourne, Seymour talks about politics, foreign policy, his daughters, who are also singers, and his writing. After his well-received 2008 "memoir", Thirteen Tonne Theory, he's now quietly working on a novel. "I'm hell-bent, but it's hard work! It might take a couple of years," says Seymour, who lives on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne. He won't reveal much except to say it's a crime novel "but dark and funny".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He discusses people he's been meeting touring Australia, some of whom inform his songwriting. He finds engaging directly with his audiences - chatting after the gig, selling CDs directly - an important part of his job, even if it seems old-school. "It's great for the artists and it's great for them as well."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's all very grass-roots for someone as legendary as Seymour, though he plays down his status, despite the huge fame he enjoyed with Hunters before they disbanded in 1998. They might have begun as an art-rock outfit in the late '70s, but by the mid-'80s Hunters and Collectors were enjoying mainstream fame, with several top 10 albums, ARIA awards and an induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame. When they reformed in 2013, they supported the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. Last year they even won a Helpmann Award for "best Australian contemporary concert". But it was a brief sojourn and Seymour was soon back to his solo life. At first it was a rude awakening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As soon as I went solo I was like, uh-oh," he says. His mainstream fame didn't - at all - translate to Seymour, the songwriter alone on stage. Did that surprise him? "That's putting it mildly! In that first decade I realised that people who are into Hunters and Collectors have quite a specific perception of that band - it's quite unique. It has a very distinct sound ... Early on, if I got 50 people to a gig, I was lucky."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given he's released nine solo albums since then, he clearly wasn't disheartened. "I don't feel I've got a choice; it's what I do, you know? ... I'm living the creative life," he says. "I just adapted, really." And he seems pretty happy. "I'm just bloody-minded!"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Seymour and the Undertow's Mayday is out now. They play on Saturday at the Factory Theatre, $55.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»ADAM GARTRELL NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>111 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second Drop-in</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But shadow ministers defy leader on gay marriage</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has prevailed in his fight on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs but could yet lose a vote on same-sex marriage.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the ALP national conference on Saturday, the Opposition Leader fended off an attempt by the Left faction to amend the party’s platform to prohibit a Labor government from turning boats back to Indonesia. The vote came after an emotional debate, with Mr Shorten telling delegates he could not endorse a policy that could contribute to drownings at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Full coverage —Pages 4-5</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turn back the votes: Shorten wins victory on <b>boat</b> turnarounds</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»ADAM GARTRELL NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>670 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has prevailed on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs but could lose a vote on same-sex marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the ALP national conference on Saturday, the Opposition Leader fended off an attempt by the Left to amend the party’s platform to prohibit a future Labor government turning boats back to Indonesia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left faction sought to insert a line into the platform reading: ‘‘Labor rejects turning away boats of people seeking <b>asylum</b>. We believe it undermines the co-operation required to reach sustainable regional processing arrangements.’’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The amendment moved by Victorian backbencher Andrew Giles was declared lost after a show of hands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The vote came after a heated and sometimes emotional debate interrupted by protesters who climbed onstage and unfurled a banner reading ‘‘No <b>refugee</b> tow backs’’. Mr Shorten told delegates he could not take a policy to the election that could contribute to drownings at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s deputy, Tanya Plibersek, had a proxy vote in favour of the Left’s motion but did not appear on the floor in person. Labor Senate leader Penny Wong did the same. Mr Shorten’s former leadership rival, Anthony Albanese, voted for the motion in person.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Had the amendment succeeded it would have seriously damaged Mr Shorten’s authority and leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his relief may be short-lived. Sources on the Left and Right say a vote on same-sex marriage is likely to be much closer and neither side is taking a win for granted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Plibersek has led the push for a binding vote on same-sex marriage, meaning Labor MPs and senators would be compelled to vote in favour of it in Parliament or risk expulsion. At present Labor MPs are allowed to vote according to their conscience on the issue. Mr Shorten is urging colleagues not to support a binding vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘I believe a binding vote for Labor in favour of marriage equality risks the Liberals re-binding against marriage equality. It lets Tony Abbott off the hook,’’ he said on Saturday. ‘‘But I understand that not every Labor MP or party member feels the same way. Some, particularly people of faith, take a different view. I respect this. It’s why I support a free vote on marriage equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten wants to keep the pressure on Prime Minister Tony Abbott to allow his team a free vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Plibersek has been largely silent on the binding vote issue since flagging it in April. But sources say she will advocate for the amendment on the conference floor on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> understands the amendment is likely to keep the conscience vote status quo in place for the current parliament and only impose a binding vote after the next election — if the reform has not yet passed. ‘‘We don’t want to give Abbott any excuse to squib it,’’ a Left source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s understood Labor Senate leader Penny Wong will also back a binding vote. But Mr Albanese will vote against the amendment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier on Saturday, Mr Shorten unveiled the details of his broader immigration policy, full of sweeteners for those unhappy with his stance on turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He pledged to double Australia’s annual humanitarian <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 by 2025, abolish Temporary Protection Visas and reinstate the United Nations <b>Refugee</b> Convention in the Migration Act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also revealed details of an ‘‘historic’’ $450 million contribution to the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span>, to boost its capacity in South-East Asia and the Pacific. It would be the biggest ever Australian contribution to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten also promised more independent oversight of Australian-funded immigration facilities in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, to restore access to the <b>Refugee</b> Review Tribunal and appoint an Independent Children’s Advocate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor also won’t return boats to some countries such as Sri Lanka and Burma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop hangs tough —Adam Gartrell, Page 33</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Regardless of today’s hand-wringing, Labor’s boats policy forever will be full of holes</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny Associate editor  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The party agonises over its <b>refugee</b> stance, but its record speaks for itself</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That Labor has been dragged kicking and screaming to accepting the bleeding obvious on border protection is a tragicomedy of the highest order.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet even after we have laughed at every farcical argument, winced at every contorted policy adjustment and wept over boundless trauma and 1200 horrible deaths, the ALP factional players and <b>refugee</b> activists are still playing out a conceited drama before a mystified audience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They pretend to have other ways to deal with people-smuggling — they dare to suggest we would risk unleashing this terrible trade for a third time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Accepting the need, when possible, to turn back people-smuggler’s boats is as unexceptional as accepting the need to drug-test cyclists or audit politicians’ travel entitlements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is like accepting that when building a road you may require a bulldozer — to get the job done you need to avail yourself of all necessary tools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet seemingly intelligent individuals continue to argue and posture on this issue, using it in equal measure to trumpet their empathy and denounce others as xenophobic brutes. It is puerile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compassionistas such as Julian Burnside QC don’t seem interested in practical solutions. Burnside recorded a speech for the ALP conference saying Australia’s border regime “calls into question the character of the nation” and that this policy area which, on any rational assessment is perhaps the government’s most successful, actually marks it as the “worst in our history”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Labor Speaker Anna Burke still opposes turning boats back and runs the now familiar lines about the non-solution of a so-called regional solution. “I think there is another way forward of actually having a genuine regional processing situation, having open dialogue with our neighbours about how to deal with these people at source and at secondary countries so they don’t have to get on a <b>boat</b>,” Burke says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unpack that waffle and you have a plan to legitimise people-smuggling by having this nation take over the final leg of the operation between Indonesia and Australia; at least until we can resolve the issues of war, famine, poverty and ethnic enmities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and a host of other countries. Good luck.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another former Labor MP, Steve Gibbons, reminded us how the compassionistas insist on using this issue to denounce their fellow citizens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The turn-back-the-boats policy will be driven by those gutless western suburbs MPs who let rednecks determine Labor policy!” he tweeted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There you have it; the responsible politicians are gormless and the voters, who overwhelmingly endorse strong border protection, are lesser beings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Gibbons probably wonders why Labor lost government. We could fill pages with these sorts of ill-informed and insulting quotes, with Kevin Rudd saying he’d turn boats back, then Labor denying the boats would start coming again, then dismissing the first arrivals, then saying it was all about push factors, then opening more detention centres, then seeing hundreds of tragic deaths and still refusing to reopen Nauru or Manus Island, then the sideshows over the so-called East Timor and Malaysia solutions (anything but going back to John Howard’s policies), then in the shadows of the 2013 election urgently reopening Nauru and Manus Island, then insisting again that boats could never be turned back safely and Indonesia would resist it anyway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is all too painful to recall and, astonishingly, has continued for almost two years since the Coali­tion won government and immediately implemented Operation Sovereign Borders, delivering almost immediate success including through the use of turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And now Labor debates whether it can accept turn-backs. Gibbons, Burnside, Burke and the current ALP players need to understand they lag behind most mainstream voters by several years and a good dollop of common sense and humanity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Voters, on the whole, are not xenophobic but welcoming, not paranoid but sensible. They understand that protecting the integrity of our immigration system, asserting our sovereignty, eliminating an illegal trade in human misery, minimising a national security risk, protecting lives and saving places for refugees in our humanitarian quota are not extreme or extravagant demands of government — rather, they are the least we should expect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s not to say implementing border protection is easy. It is not. But this is why we elect federal governments (I am sorry such straightforward matters need stating): to carry out the difficult and complex tasks for which Canberra exists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What we have seen from Labor for a decade and a half on this issue is an inexplicably consistent triumph of politicking over policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the start of this century escalating arrivals of <b>asylum</b>-seekers by <b>boat</b> brought an obvious dilemma, presenting the government with a binary choice: you allowed the people-smuggling trade to operate into Australia or you did not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The open-borders approach is not viable. With 10 million or more refugees and displaced people around the world (and perhaps 10 or 100 times as many who could plausibly masquerade as such to gain permanent residency in Australia), the understandable demand for passage to our nation is exponentially beyond our capacity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We saw all this play out when Labor unpicked the Pacific Solution in 2008 and it provided the impetus for more than 800 boats to bring in 52,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers while 1200 died at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once you decide, as surely any national government would, that this vile people-smuggling trade should be stopped, the onus is just a matter of working out how.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This should have nothing to do with politics but everything to do with good policy and good governance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clearly the boats could be stopped without regard for decency or safety, so the question has always been to settle on the most humane and safe manner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is why through a series of incidents and accidents, along with trial, error and resolve, the Howard government ended up with a suite of measures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These included Labor’s mandatory detention along with offshore processing and temporary protection visas. And one of the most effective tools was safely turning boats back to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It happened only a handful of times but it confronted the smugglers with disgruntled customers demanding refunds and telling potential customers about the traffic block.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As has been said, it broke the people-smuggling business model. When it returned to government in 2007 Labor could have left all this alone — the boats had stopped and centres had been emptied and closed — except for politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having campaigned so long against the Coalition’s policies, declaring they lacked compassion and were unfair, Labor wanted to keep faith with the Left by dismantling the Pacific Solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration minister Chris Evans said it had been a “cynical, costly and ultimately unsuccessful exercise” but Coalition spokesman Chris Ellison warned the move could signal to people-smugglers that Australia’s regime was weakening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now Labor tears itself apart over a choice between a policy that works or some emotive posturing.The punchline is that, whatever it decides, it will expect to be believed.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics The challenge is to become, if not the great persuader, a credible advocate of Labor’s cause - THE NATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten's hopes of building a foundation of credibility at the Labor Party's three-day national conference in Melbourne are underpinned by a trifecta of challenges: one to Tony Abbott, one to his party and one to himself.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To Abbott, perhaps the most potent negative campaigner in Australian political history, Shorten's dare is to contest next year's election on the issue of climate change and Labor's plan to introduce an emissions trading scheme. "Bring it on!" Shorten declared on Friday, to rousing applause.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To the party, Shorten's invitation is to back his decision to include Abbott's secretive turning back of <b>asylum</b> seekers intercepted at sea - a policy Labor has reviled as cruel, dangerous, counterproductive and illegal - in the ALP's policy to stop the boats. The sullen silence when Shorten asserted that Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles would deliver immigration policies that are "safe and humane" underscored the party's discomfort with an approach condemned by international agencies such as the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To himself, the challenge is to become, if not the great persuader, the most credible advocate of Labor's cause at a national level. Here, Shorten's 34-minute opening address to the conference represented a modest, qualified down payment that seemed to please the 400 delegates at the Melbourne Convention Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More revealing will be Shorten's interventions in debates over the weekend on <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, marriage equality, free trade and party reform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The leader's address is always the set-piece event to kick off Labor conferences, usually accompanied by a feel-good video, the presence of family members, and hugs, hand-shakes or kisses from past Labor prime ministers. But not this time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That the usual invitations to former leaders were issued but politely declined pointed to a collective acceptance of the need to white-out any reminders of the "killing seasons" of Labor's recent past and Shorten's cameo roles in the knifing of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, the party honoured Victoria's Dan Andrews and Queensland's Annastacia Palaszczuk, two state leaders who have already accomplished Shorten's mission and brought down first-term Liberal governments. If the doubters need living proof that uncharismatic leaders with low or middling approval ratings, and who generate low expectations, can prevail against newly installed governments, look no further. The prerequisite, as Andrews pointed out, is to have first-term governments that break their promises.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The big difference between their experience and that of Shorten is that Labor has been in front in the national polls for 18 months, yet his own approval ratings are at record lows. This explains why Shorten went into the conference under so much pressure with so many hurdles to clear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first was whether he could hold the attention of the audience, project credibility, invite a measure of confidence and avoid gaffes. If the audience reaction is any guide, he cleared this hurdle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second went to the substance of the speech, and this hurdle was higher because of Shorten's declaration that Labor would be defined by the quality of its ideas this pre-election year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here, the speech suffered from the common failing of such addresses in recent times on both sides of politics - the ascendancy of rhetoric and platitudes ("Never has the choice between a Labor Party planning for the future and a Liberal Party stuck in the past been more stark" etc etc) over facts and substance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One exception was the section dealing with climate change, where Shorten went to some lengths to lay out the facts of global warming and the reactions of other countries before outlining his approach and issuing his challenge to Abbott. The pity was that this section of the speech had been pre-released by Shorten's office, taking the edge off the "bring it on" punch line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for other ideas, there was a phrase about Australia becoming a republic this decade, suggesting a Shorten government would hold a referendum within four years of being elected. But no detail. There was also an invitation for delegates to commit to 50 per cent of Labor's candidates being women by 2025. That was about as far as it went.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The third hurdle was whether Shorten could project an understanding of the economic challenges facing the nation and articulate the priorities he would pursue and the choices he would make.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here, the Labor leader presented the bare bones of a narrative about finding ways to boost productivity by seizing new opportunities, rather than resorting to "the politics of soft options and raising the GST". Again, without much factual context.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The final hurdle will be whether Shorten's performance at the conference is strong enough to convince the internal critics to back off and those commentators who have written him off to reassess. This is where his handling of the two potentially most divisive debates, on <b>boat</b> turnbacks and marriage equality, may be critical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On both issues Shorten has taken pre-emptive action, announcing his reversal on turnbacks in a television interview and issuing a warning via The Age and other Fairfax platforms before the conference to advocates of a binding vote in support of marriage equality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the latter issue, he is likely to emerge on the winning side of the argument with his authority enhanced. Many advocates of a binding Labor vote before the next election concede that its impact would be to eliminate any chance of the Coalition being afforded a free vote and mean no change in this Parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the former, the policy to be endorsed by the conference will go some way towards being a political solution, but will dismay those who are convinced there is a better, fairer and more compassionate way to prevent uninvited arrivals and deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The promise of a higher <b>refugee</b> intake, more transparency and better monitoring of conditions for those in detention will not constitute a solution for those vulnerable refugees consigned to uncertain limbo and indefinite misery on Nauru or Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for turnbacks, the case against was summed up neatly by <b>refugee</b> lawyer David Manne at a side event at the conference. Aside from violating rights and endangering lives, Manne pointed to the big picture: "If all countries around the world adopted this policy, the entire international framework for protecting refugees would collapse."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a reality to be addressed if and when Labor wins power. The priority for Labor in the meantime is getting there and, on that score, the conference is likely to do more to help than hinder the Shorten cause.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The nation</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has risked the wrath of both wings of his party. But if his vote-pullers on refugees and climate work, he may not have to worry.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> have played a pivotal role in two Labor election losses. John Howard's exploitation and demonisation of those aboard the MV Tampa in 2001 effortlessly wedged Kim Beazley's opposition and helped engineer Howard's comeback victory that year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue played a far greater role not just in Labor's 2013 election loss of government, but in the events that helped precipitate it. Kevin Rudd's relaxation of Howard's border protocols resulted in a renewed influx of boats, which Rudd was powerless to stop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first doubts - internal and external - about his seemingly impenetrable leadership arose in October 2009 when he was unable to resolve the stand-off with the Indonesian government concerning the group of Tamil <b>asylum</b> seekers refusing to disembark from their rescue ship, the Australian Customs vessel, Oceanic Viking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That stand-off is now commonly referred to as the beginning of the unravelling of Rudd, who was dumped by his colleagues eight months later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the time Labor lost government in 2013, the situation was completely out of control and was, along with Labor's infighting, a key reason the government was booted out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 50,000 people, a mixture of refugees and economic migrants, had come by <b>boat</b> in five years. Another estimated 1200 drowned trying to get here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even voters who felt sympathetic to the cause felt uncomfortable with how events spiralled out of control.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm all for them coming here but it feels like they're jumping over my back fence," recalled an MP recently of a conversation he had with a constituent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Little wonder that when he retired from the Senate after that election loss, Bob Carr's parting advice to the caucus was to not ever again allow a cigarette paper's difference between Labor and Coalition policy on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Empirical evidence shows Labor cannot win on <b>asylum</b> seekers. Try to show humanity and it gets exploited. No one other than the Greens could ever contend that what occurred under the Labor government was in any way ideal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In that vein, Bill Shorten has done the right thing in taking on the Labor Left at this weekend's national conference in fighting to have the option, if elected, of turning back the boats. That was once anathema to Labor, but so was the Pacific solution, which the ALP also had to embrace when in government to try to "stop the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course there are risks. Some of the disenchanted will go and vote Greens despite doubling the humanitarian intake to 27,000 refugees a year and other humanitarian trade-offs. Others who see the issue as a deal breaker will stick with the Coalition anyway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Shorten needs to neutralise the issue as much as he can in the lead-up to the election and, if he wins, do everything he can to avoid the boats starting again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That he has taken on the issue should quieten some of his detractors who keep claiming he is weak. In fact, Shorten's counter-intuitive style of late shows he is anything but. A little crazy brave maybe, but not weak.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take climate change. Electorally, a price on carbon is Labor's equivalent of WorkChoices. To the chagrin of the true believers, the Coalition tossed WorkChoices overboard when it cost it the 2007 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But after becoming leader following the 2013 rout, Shorten, to the amazement of the Coalition, recommitted Labor to the policy principle of pricing carbon. Hardly spineless or populist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As he said on Friday when opening the conference, the bulk of the heavy lifting on climate change under Labor would be done by having a 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030. Playing a supporting role would be an emissions trading scheme dealing in low-cost international permits, something business and industry have long supported as their preferred option.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The emphasis on renewable energy is politically smart. Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey have made fools of themselves with their unhinged attacks on wind farms. It shows they have yet to learn that voter hatred of the carbon tax was more to do with its association with Julia Gillard, the fact no one ever really understood how it worked and that most regarded it as an economic issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everyone gets renewable energy and they like it. It's a feel-good thing and it enables Labor to create a populist and simple point of difference with the government over climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, those on the Left cranky about <b>boat</b> turn-backs are very happy about the climate policy. It was the high point of Shorten's speech on Friday when people genuinely got out of their chairs and whooped and hollered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has fired up the base and it gives it something to fight for, something in which it believes and, in the case of renewable energy, something easy to sell.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Labor starts to detail the policy, it will explain that the new renewable energy target will be reached through a range of mechanisms, which should push back at the power price argument.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics reaches a tipping point this weekend. The ALP national conference, an event that occurs once each term, is always a make or break event for the leader. It is more important to not stuff up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2011 conference was a calamity for Gillard, all of her own making. She hit the fence in her opening speech, she sparked a leadership war by omitting Rudd as she rattled off every Labor leader going back to the war and lauded their achievements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's policy pronouncements have shown he is not afraid and nor is he going to die wondering. The Left is entitled to kick up a stink over boats but it also needs to consider the bigger picture. Is it better to be in government or not?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both Shorten and Abbott are about as popular as boils, according to the opinion polls. Labor consoles itself with the observation that unlike Shorten, who entered Parliament in 2007 and had been largely unknown until recently, Abbott has been around for 20 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the Prime Minister, the voter attitude will be harder to shift, but Shorten doesn't need any own goals.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gent : Arts/Entertainment | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nrvw : Reviews | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfce : C&E Exclusion Filter | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020150724eb7p00020</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150726eb7p0000b" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Unions prop up Shorten on <b>asylum</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE: DAVID CROWE POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1111 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unions prop up Shorten</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has gained late support for his pledge to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats, as union bosses come to his aid at Labor’s national conference, leaving him in their debt for saving him from defeat.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader is ­assembling an alliance of Labor delegates from the Left and Right to back his decision to use <b>boat</b> turnbacks to deter <b>asylum</b>-seekers, a vow that has triggered a threat to his authority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten may now be ­beholden to his rescuers, influencing policy deals well in the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Significant issues at the conference include climate change, gay marriage and concerns about ­migrant workers entering Australia under the China free-trade agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader’s allies were cautiously optimistic last night that he would prevail on <b>asylum</b>-­seeker policy, but factional leaders told The Weekend Australian they expected a “robust” fight on the floor of the conference to challenge his plan. The internal dispute will leave the Opposition Leader with a debt to the unions that back him on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, with a victory helping to enhance his leadership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s Bill’s risky moment and the unions will make sure he prevails,” a senior delegate said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will today reveal more details of a border-­protection policy already signed off by shadow cabinet, including the abolition of temporary protection visas, the expansion of the <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 places every year and the adoption of turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the turnback policy has split the party, some of the most powerful left-wing ­unions are ­focused on jobs and trade instead, urging Mr Shorten to crusade for stronger safeguards for workers in the government’s new trade deal with China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Weekend Australian was told last night that the Labor Left was splintering and would not be able to insist on a binding vote from all its conference delegates to veto the use of turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those close to the negotiations said it was almost certain that some party members would move an amendment today to ban turnbacks in Labor’s policy platform but that this would not succeed. With the Right backing turnbacks, Mr Shorten gained more support yesterday to see off the threat and emerge with a policy victory after an unavoidable fight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten told delegates over drinks last night that Labor had to show “unity of purpose” and prove to voters that it could be trusted in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The debate on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy is expected to dominate the national conference in Melbourne today but the party has also used the event to endorse ­policy ambitions including tax ­increases on wealthy Australians and a crackdown on negative gearing for property investors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten used his opening address yesterday to call for an Australian republic within a decade, promise a government of “consensus and co-operation” on the economy and set a target to get more women into parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor delegates cheered when Mr Shorten dared Tony Abbott to call an election on climate change policy, after the Opposition Leader made it clear he would ­implement an emissions trading scheme if he won power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With unions holding a large share of the conference delegates, there was vocal support for Mr Shorten’s attacks on the government for launching a royal commission into union corruption.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“No group of people in all Australian history has done more to guarantee safety, to build national wealth, to lift the living standards of ordinary people, than our ­unions,” Mr Shorten said in his speech. “Ten thousand royal ­commissions won’t change this.” The <span class="companylink">Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union</span> is backing Mr Shorten on the turnbacks, but other unions on the Left are preparing to join the ­debate against the leader. The mood of the conference became clear when Mr Shorten used his speech to praise his frontbenchers, triggering loud applause for deputy leader Tanya Plibersek but silence for immigration spokesman Richard Marles. There was at least one “boo” from the floor when Mr Shorten promised the “safe and humane” treatment of <b>asylum</b>- seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior Left figure Anthony Albanese, the infrastructure spokesman and former deputy leader, also gave voice to the internal frustration by criticising the way the new policy was announced, on national television two days before the conference opened. “You can be tough on people-smugglers without being weak on humanity,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fellow Left figure and trade spokeswoman Penny Wong made it clear that shadow cabinet had approved the policy, a point also made by Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen. The Weekend Australian was told that shadow cabinet agreed on <b>boat</b> turnbacks in recent weeks but that Mr Shorten told his colleagues they were free to speak against the policy at the conference if they were delegates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This gives senior Left figures the scope to side with their factional colleagues in a debate today, even though frontbenchers would normally be bound by the decision of the shadow cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and Mr Marles are expected to outline the policy today as agreed by shadow cabinet, emphasising the agreement on the policy despite the prospect of a challenge in the conference. Today’s announcement will include an increase in the humanitarian intake to 27,000 places a year, almost double the government’s current intake of 13,750.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new policy will promise “fast and fair” <b>refugee</b> decisions within 90 days and an independent advocate to look after the interests of children in detention. “Labor will work to ensure children are out of detention as soon as possible,” says a policy document.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor will provide $450 million over three years to support the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>. It will also pledge to abolish temporary protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Showing the importance of climate change policy to rallying the Labor base, Mr Shorten drew the strongest applause when he pledged to introduce an ETS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Let me say this to our opponents, in words of one syllable: an ETS is not a tax,” he declared. “And if Mr Abbott wants to make the next election a contest about who has the best policy solution for climate change, I’ve got a three-word-slogan for him: bring it on.” Mr Shorten vowed to increase the representation of women in the party and the parliament, setting a goal for 50 per cent of Labor MPs to be women by 2025.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His message to delegates and voters was that the nation could not afford another three years of a government led by Tony Abbott, and that Labor could be trusted to manage the economy.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>npag : Page-One Stories | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150726eb7p0000b</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ILM0000020150725eb7p00006" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seeker amazed at level of public support</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>170 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AFGHAN <b>asylum</b> seeker Nadir Sadiqi has been overwhelmed by the support of 60,000 Australians but <b>refugee</b> advocates fear the publicity will make him an easier Taliban target if he's forced home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Sadiqi is set to be deported to Afghanistan after his temporary protection visa runs out on August 6, as his hopes of intervention from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton fade.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Hazara father-of-three, who arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2010, was the focus of an "emotional" candlelight vigil at Brisbane's St John's Cathedral on Thursday night, following a social media campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He was overwhelmed with the support from the public," said friend and advocate Terry Boyce. Following an online bungle by the Department of Immigration in February - where 10,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers had their personal details mistakenly published - Mr Sadiqi received death threats from the Taliban. Mr Sadiqi says his father was killed by the Taliban when he was 13. AAP</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ILM0000020150725eb7p00006</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020150724eb7p0006l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Agenda</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>wtw <b>boat</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>36 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>91</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> slips through net <b>Boat</b> slips through net</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crew on the oil production platform Modec Venture 11 spotted a group of suspected Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers in a small <b>boat</b> about 150km off Dampier.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020150724eb7p0006l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020150724eb7p0003g" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>MURRAYCOLUMN24_07</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Murray   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>981 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A nd there I was thinking Labor opposed turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats because (a) it wouldn’t work, (b) the Indonesians would get upset if we tried and (c) it would break a range of international laws and conventions if we succeeded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you go back as far as Julia Gillard’s time as shadow immigration minister before Labor won office in 2007, these have been the constant lines of attack on the coalition’s people-smuggling policies.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were completely wrong, according to Bill Shorten this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader was uncharacteristically explicit about his party’s failure on Wednesday night when he sought to ambush any attempt at this weekend’s national conference to moralise about the Abbott Government’s success at halting the flow of boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By assuming ownership of the turn-back policy, Shorten made himself the target for those Labor hand-wringers who would rather keep corrupt people smugglers in business than adopt a firm line on protecting our borders and the integrity of our immigration and <b>refugee</b> systems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s not an easy issue for Labor because on one hand we’re absolutely committed to the humane treatment of refugees and on the other hand we also want to prevent people drowning at sea and we want to make sure that the people smugglers and the criminal syndicates can’t get back into action by exploiting Government policies,” Shorten said on the ABC’s 7.30.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s not easy, though, because it involves the admission, I think, that mistakes were made when Labor was last in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And for myself, if I want to be the leader of this nation, I’ve got to be able to face the truth and the truth for me is that if we have policies in place which give sustenance and support to people smugglers to exploit vulnerable people, where they put these vulnerable people on unsafe boats and then people drown at sea, I can’t support any policies which do that.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In those few words Shorten shafted Labor’s Left and put his leadership on the line over an issue that has dogged his party for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who could forget Kevin Rudd’s ominous warning about a “lurch to the Right” on <b>asylum</b> seeker policy the night Gillard came hunting for him, her subsequent harebrained East Timor solution and then Rudd’s final surrender to his own words with the Papua New Guinea solution just before the last election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those tortured positions were taken because the two leaders knew Australians wanted Labor to grow up and provide sensible policies. But Labor couldn’t quite accept turn-backs, as Gillard showed in July 2010:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Opposition is trying to sell the Australian community a fairytale in which all you have to do is go out to an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> and turn it around and everything will be fixed — but this fairytale is not the facts. The facts are the <b>boat</b> will be scuttled and start to sink.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten needs to change Labor’s ingrained position because it is clear to average Australians that the coalition’s policy has worked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It works because it destroys the people smugglers’ lucrative ability to sell life-threatening trips with any degree of certainty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The credible <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> poll early last year showed 71 per cent of Australians support turn-backs, an overwhelming majority for any area of contentious government policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That high number suggests Labor could attract more voters than it loses from its greening Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever the voting consequences, the first part of Labor’s longstanding opposition has simply become nonsensical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten seeks to build moral authority on the issue of saving lives because everyone can now conclude that the Rudd government’s dismantling of Howard-era policies was responsible for more than 1100 deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s shadow immigration minister Richard Marles was hand-in-hand with Shorten this week, writing an op-ed piece for a Murdoch tabloid promoting the new policy as “more humane”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this was his attitude in November 2013 after Indonesia refused to accept a boatload of <b>asylum</b> seekers turned back in the early days of the Abbott Government:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Turning back the boats was always a furphy. We see them saying they’ll turn back the boats, (but) somehow in the course of the last eight weeks the new Abbott coalition government has managed to damage our relationship with Indonesia — that’s got to be a land-speed record for getting things wrong.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marles and Shorten are obviously no longer concerned about hurting Indonesian sensitivities by co-opting that very policy. That argument is dead, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia’s endemic corruption at its borders and ports encouraged the people smugglers, even though the flow of economic migrants heading for Australia is a burden on the country. So we’ve done them a favour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Marles first dipped his toe in the water on this issue last October, Labor’s Fremantle MHR Melissa Parke, a former <span class="companylink">UN</span> lawyer, attacked him, saying: “It is against our Labor values and against our commitment to uphold international law and human rights.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one has yet shown in court that it breaches either, though Australia’s host of <b>asylum</b> seeker lawyers has had plenty of time to try.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maybe that’s the real furphy here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has been in the thrall of these highly politicised lawyers, like those who are finally being purged from the <b>Refugee</b> Review Tribunal where they created havoc with the Immigration Department’s assessments of false claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The core issue from this ALP conference is whether Shorten’s gambit is anything more than a tricky policy “option” to take to the electors and then ignore should they win.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s history with this policy and its ongoing bitter internal dissent doesn’t inspire confidence that it’s genuine.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020150724eb7p0003g</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020150724eb7p0002t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ALP analysis</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Probyn   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>362 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten may as well pack his bags if he loses the vote on <b>boat</b> turn-backs today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For six years, Labor conducted a live experiment on what happens if you unpick a suite of hardline but un-deniably effective policies.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a catastrophe and humanitarian disaster that killed at least 1200 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What began as a trickle of boats turned into a torrent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The initial surge saw 60 boats arrive in 2009, carrying 2726 people. This grew to 278 boats in 2012, carrying 17,202, completely swamping the offshore <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2013, Labor’s last year in power, there were 300 boats carrying 20,587 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left of the Labor Party may hate turn-backs but the fact is leaving the swag of border policies untouched is vital to Shorten’s electability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here’s where it’s all a bit cute in any case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Shorten gets his way, the ALP platform will actually be blank on turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’ll be no endorsement of the tactic per se.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But equally, turn-backs will not be prohibited.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given how the Left feels on this subject, this will have to be good enough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will buy Shorten some insurance against Tony Abbott’s inevitable election attacks on Labor’s poor record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Canning by-election will tell us whether it is enough, because few issues bit harder for the ALP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor strategists say the party can fight on their preferred battlegrounds of health, education and climate change only once the boats issue is neutralised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of curiosity has been the role of Left powerbroker Anthony Albanese on the boats argument.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A leadership rival to Shorten, Albanese admonished Shorten for the “surprise” announcement on turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet despite his venting, he did not speak directly against turn-backs and Albanese will use his influence to ensure Shorten is not humiliated on the issue. After all, should Albanese ever become Labor leader, he too would need the option of pushing back boats.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here’s where it’s all a bit cute. If Shorten gets his way, the ALP platform will actually be blank on turn-backs.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SHORTEN HUNTS MISSING PEACE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Steven Scott Renee Viellaris   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>698 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR CONFERENCE Leader plans to stop rocking boats with compromise on <b>asylum</b> policy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten will today issue an olive branch to his own party with a suite of measures to bring in more refugees and tougher monitoring of detention centres.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As he fights to avoid a humiliating defeat of his plan to keep Tony Abbott’s policy of turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats, Mr Shorten will vow to almost double Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he will today face yet another headache. His one-time leadership rival, Anthony Albanese, is continuing to go rogue as he “hangs’’ Tanya Plibersek “out to dry’’ and undercuts his leader on climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rank-and-file popular choice as leader – and Labor’s spokesman for infrastructure – will today address a climate change rally outside the national conference in a move that has excited his supporters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, Mr Shorten said he would make the next election a battle of policies on climate change. As of last night, Mr Shorten was not invited to speak at the rally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Albo’s s--t-stirring,” one source said. “He’s enjoying this too much.’’ Mr Albanese said yesterday he was speaking as a “delegate’’ when he criticised Mr Shorten’s decision to mirror the Coalition’s <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turn-back policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He just hung (Deputy Opposition Leader) Tanya (Plibersek) out to dry when he said that,’’ another source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese and Ms Plibersek are both from the Left faction. Some in the Left are angry Ms Plibersek looks set to support Mr Shorten’s <b>asylum</b> seeker plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, a number of sources said Mr Albanese, who has accepted he is unlikely to lead the Labor Party, will remain loyal to Mr Shorten when the national conference finishes this weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will today announce that temporary protection visas would be scrapped if Labor wins the next election to prevent <b>asylum</b> seekers being kept in limbo in Australia and <b>refugee</b> decisions will be fast-tracked with a 90-day deadline.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span><span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> would receive a $450 million boost over three years, making Australia one of the top five funders in the world, and immigration laws would be overhauled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The measures are designed to placate Labor’s Left and prevent moves to roll Mr Shorten over his plan to turn back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten will defend his tough plans by insisting they are needed to ensure people smugglers cannot revive their trade under a Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor is committed to ending people smuggling and deaths at sea,” Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There must be absolutely no incentive for people smugglers to put vulnerable people on unsafe boats.” Supporters of Mr Shorten’s plan to abandon Labor’s long-held opposition to turning around <b>asylum</b> seeker boats were last night saying they were “quietly optimistic” of withstanding a Left wing backlash.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he still faces a divisive contest on the floor of the ALP conference despite late negotiations between factions to save face for their leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten is trying to use the conference to shake off a run of poor personal opinion poll ratings and lingering doubts in the party about his political judgments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a rallying cry to the party faithful in Melbourne yesterday, he presented himself as a centrist leader who could work with business but also issued a defiant call for tougher policies on climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To rousing cheers from the crowd, Mr Shorten said he was not worried about a scare campaign over the carbon tax and defended Labor’s vision of an emissions trading scheme and a 50 per cent renewable energy target.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in a sign of simmering tensions within the party, Mr Shorten was greeted with silence and a few boos from the crowd at this only mention of “immigration policies that are safe and humane”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Left-wing powerbrokers will not decide whether to actively challenge Mr Shorten over border protection until this morning.However, Left-wing delegates aligned with the CFMEU were last night prepared to break away from the faction to protect Mr Shorten being rolled.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten to offer <b>refugee</b> lift to soften <b>boat</b> turnback bid</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAMANTHA MAIDEN   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR leader Bill Shorten will today pledge to double Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 within a decade in a olive branch to his divided party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taxpayers would foot the bill of his proposed $450 million boost to spending on <b>asylum</b> seekers and the cost of reinstating the <b>Refugee</b> Review Tribunal.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The policy would also ­establish an official advocate for <b>asylum</b> seeker children in detention, who would have the power to launch legal action on their behalf.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After he was openly booed yesterday over his boats turnback policy by delegates at the Labor national conference, Mr Shorten will today try to heal the rift with a huge increase in spending.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Labor government would also abolish temporary protection visas and retain the option of turning back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats where it is safe to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Australia should take our fair share of refugees but I want them to arrive safely,” Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor is committed to ending people smuggling and deaths at sea. “This is an incredibly difficult issue for many people. I understand that. No one wants to see people drown at sea and I firmly believe this is the best way to avoid that happening again.” Mr Shorten will stand firm on a policy of offshore processing and his new policy of supporting <b>asylum</b> boats turnbacks – despite the opposition of his leadership rival Anthony Albanese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese yesterday confirmed he would vote against Mr Shorten’s turnback policy if a vote was forced at the ALP conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he slammed as “rubbish” claims he was destabilising Mr Shorten to challenge him for the job in the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This isn’t about anything other than my views,’’ Mr Albanese told The Advertiser.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That’s rubbish. My principle is that you can be tough on border security without being weak on humanity.” Rank-and-file Labor members also cheered at a Labor for Refugees function after Mr Shorten was described as leading “the least effective opposition in living memory” by lawyer Julian Burnside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor for Refugees has suggested that Mr Shorten would never be able to implement the turnback policy in government because it would contravene international law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the party conference, immigration spokesman Richard Marles confronted critics, saying the policies of the past would see more <b>asylum</b> seekers die. He warned that if Labor allowed <b>asylum</b> seekers to drown at sea again, “we will be condemned by history”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During his pitch to party faithful, Mr Shorten confirmed he would stake his leadership on a re-run of the emissions trading scheme debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Climate change is not ‘absolute crap’, it is an inescapable fact,’’ he said. “If Mr Abbott wants to make the next election a ­contest  about  who  has  the best  policy  solution  for  climate change … I’ve got a three-word slogan for him: Bring it on.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE KEY ISSUES TO WATCH TODAY Boats: Shorten’s backflip on turnbacks has angered the Left, but he is tipped to win if it goes to a vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Climate: His decision to resuscitate the hated carbon tax as an “emissions trading scheme” will become part of the ALP platform today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TOMORROW Equality: Rainbow Labor wants a binding vote for same-sex marriage, instead of a conscience vote, but is unlikely to succeed.Rules: Rank and file members to have more say over Senate preselections under Labor Party reforms.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>BILL’S BIG GAMBLE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MATTHEW BENNS   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL SHORTEN’S RIVALS ARE SHARPENING THEIR KNIVES AS THE OPPOSITION LEADER FACES THE BIGGEST TEST OF HIS POLITICAL CAREER, WRITES MATTHEW BENNS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Backflip Bill Shorten has put his leadership on the line as he faces the most critical test of his political career this weekend.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And behind the scenes at the 47th Australian Labor Party National Conference in Melbourne his rivals including deputy leader Tanya Plibersek are sharpening their knives and lining up to take his place if he falls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is a critical test for him,” says political analyst Dr Norman Abjorensen from the <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At stake is not just Mr Shorten’s leadership but the direction and future of the Labor Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He has got to prove, not just to the party but to the electorate, that he is the guy running things,” Dr Abjorensen says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To do that the Labor leader has gambled everything on a dramatic policy about turn that has deliberately alienated the left of the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just days before the start of the conference yesterday Mr Shorten back-flipped and said his party would follow the Abbott Government’s successful policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers. That policy “would include <b>boat</b> turn backs as an option,” Mr Shorten says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor left erupted. Anthony Albanese, who unsuccessfully contested Mr Shorten for the leadership after the 2013 election defeat, was the most vocal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think that it is absolutely critical, critical, that we always remember our need for compassion and to not appeal to the darker side,” he told the ABC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However it was not a surprise to Mr Albanese who had been briefed on Mr Shorten’s intentions earlier in the week. This casts his outcry in a different light with Labor insiders suggesting it was a blatant move to destabilise the leader on the eve of the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Abjorensen says: “Basically Shorten has alienated the party left with this and risked a shift of voters going over to the Greens — particularly in Albanese’s seat.” Mr Albanese’s seat of Grayndler in Sydney’s inner west includes Marrickville, Leichhardt and Dulwich Hill, which are viewed as an inner city, latte-drinking, goat cheese-eating target for the Green vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Abjorensen says Mr Shorten’s backflip was a calculated decision to try and close a wedge that has divided the party for more than a decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This issue is where the Labor Party has been really damaged. Bleeding heart voters in the inner city say let the <b>asylum</b> seekers in but traditional blue- collar Labor voters say we don’t want them taking our jobs,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The left is also furious that Mr Shorten has hijacked the agenda. But Dr Abjorensen says Mr Shorten needed to stamp his authority on the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He has taken a savage hit in the polls and so has a lot to prove. He has to show he is the boss,” he says. “He comes into this conference under a cloud, I think he has been badly damaged by his appearance at the Royal Commission.” Mr Shorten’s disastrous two-day appearance before the Royal Commission into trade union corruption revealed a raft of dodgy deals and bogus payments that dudded workers during his time as head of the <span class="companylink">Australian Workers’ Union</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a bad look for both Mr Shorten and a party that draws much of its money and membership from the union movement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Shorten needs to blunt the damage done by the Royal Commission and show that the unions are not controlling the party,” Dr Abjorensen says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To do that he needs a conference win on watering down the power of the unions and putting more control into the hands of the rank and file members.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To assuage the left, Mr Shorten has also come up with a range of concessions on climate change that have embittered the right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten has at least united both sides of the party in a mutual dislike of him. But he is gambling on the party’s need to unite strongly behind the leader before the next election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conference is also expected to debate same sex marriage. Mr Shorten is in favour of a free vote on the issue but the left, led by Ms Plibersek, is keen for a binding vote. Ms Plibersek has since gone quiet on the topic. Almost too quiet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week Ms Plibersek surprised many by popping up at a <span class="companylink">UN</span> conference in Ethiopia with former deputy prime minister Wayne Swan — the man whose time in office was cut short by Mr Shorten’s switch of allegiance from Julia Gillard to Kevin Rudd. Mr Shorten dismissed speculation about Ms Plibersek’s leadership ambitions as rubbish.But everyone in the party knows that Mr Swan likes to settle his scores and he has form for backing leaders who take power in a coup.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘Least-effective opposition yet’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>RACHEL BAXENDALE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>373 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Resistance within Labor to Bill Shorten’s support for <b>boat</b> turnbacks was on stark display as more than 150 ALP faithful cheered lawyer Julian Burnside’s description of the Shorten opposition as “the least-effective opposition in living memory” on the sidelines of Labor’s national conference yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The crowd gathered at a Labor for Refugees forum, also addressed by ACTU president Ged Kearney and human-rights lawyer David Manne.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor for Refugees hopes to move a motion at the conference this afternoon opposing “policies of ‘deterrence’ implemented alongside offshore detention, especially intercepting and turning back boats at sea, or transferring refugees to other vessels for immediate return to their countries of origin without a proper assessment of their claims for protection”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Late yesterday it was unclear if the motion would be debated and voted on, given the potential for it to expose divisions within the party. On Wednesday’s ABC 7.30 program, Mr Shorten revealed he now supported <b>boat</b> turnbacks to “defeat the people-smugglers” and “prevent drownings at sea”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a video recorded on Tuesday and played at yesterday’s forum, Mr Burnside, who is not a member of any political party, said Labor no longer appeared to have principles or stand for anything.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If it still stands for something it is conspicuously silent on the things that it still believes,” he said, to cries of “hear, hear” from those in the room.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor for Refugees national convener Shane Prince described the debate within Labor over <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy as a “very, very tight contest”. He said he was “by no means certain” the motion would be put today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It may be better in the long run for the platform to remain silent on this issue because we are so confident that our view of this is correct and that we cannot breach international law,” he said.Labor Left heavyweight Anthony Albanese refused to rule out moving against Mr Shorten’s proposal. “At the moment there is a draft platform. I support that draft platform that is going up to the conference and I’ll examine any proposal that comes before the conference on its merits,” he told the Nine Network’s Today .</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PREMIER Jay Weatherill is at loggerheads with senior members of Labor’s federal leadership team over the future of the nuclear industry and a possible increase in the GST.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese yesterday declared his opposition to any further Australian involvement in the nuclear fuel cycle and to the importation of nuclear waste, while Labor leader Bill Shorten reiterated his hostility to raising the GST.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese – who unsuccessfully stood for the Labor leadership after the last federal election - yesterday said it was too dangerous for Australia to become more involved in the nuclear fuel cycle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My position on the nuclear fuel cycle is clear,’’ Mr Albanese told an anti-nuclear weapons event on the sidelines of the ALP conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Until the issues of nuclear waste and nuclear proliferation are satisfactorily solved, I oppose any further Australian involvement in the nuclear fuel cycle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Nuclear waste created today, remains an issue for generations to come.’’ Mr Albanese’s opposition to nuclear energy is heavily influenced by his friendship with former Labor MP Tom Uren, who died earlier this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a prisoner of the Japanese in 1945, Mr Uren saw the mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Weatherill refused to criticise Mr Albanese’s position on the nuclear fuel cycle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The nuclear debate has always inspired strong emotions,’’ the Premier said. “This is why we have set up a royal commission – so that we can establish the facts and make a more considered judgment about this issue.” Labor’s platform commits the party in government to prohibiting “the establishment of nuclear power plants and all other stages of the nuclear fuel cycle in Australia.’’ Any addition to the nuclear industry in Australia would require both state and federal legislative change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But an anti-nuclear section of the Federal Labor policy platform will be left in place at Labor’s national conference in Melbourne this weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce, the head of South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission, said yesterday if he were to recommend an expansion of the industry, national support would be crucial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There would be no opportunity – in my view – without bipartisan support both at the federal and state level to make the investment that would be necessary,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rear Admiral Scarce returned last week from a fact-finding tour of the US and Canada, where the industry supports hundreds of thousands of jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor supporters of more Australian nuclear involvement will wait for the report of the royal commission before they attempt to change the platform.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese has also defied Mr Shorten by publicly criticising the proposal for the party to support <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten yesterday reaffirmed his opposition to an increase in the GST – something Mr Weatherill has expressed a willingness to contemplate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At a two-day <span class="companylink">Council of Australian Governments</span> retreat with Prime Minister Tony Abbott and other premiers this week, Mr Weatherill agreed that discussions on a possible increase in the GST should continue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But in his address to the conference yesterday, Mr Shorten said tax reform should exclude any increase in the 10 per cent consumption tax.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left needs to acquaint itself with the push-pull factors</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the ALP debates the vexed question of <b>asylum</b>-seekers at its annual conference, Labor hardheads know that any softening of the party’s position will be ruthlessly exploited by the Coalition and almost certainly condemn Labor to an extended period in opposition, such is the toxicity of the issue in the electorate.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is why Bill Shorten is prepared to risk a fight on the conference floor with his pre-emptive declaration that Labor must accept <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing as essential elements of a reconfigured <b>asylum</b>-seeker ­policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unfortunately, the emotion and passions generated by nearly two decades of heated domestic debate has made it extremely difficult to have a rational discussion about <b>asylum</b>-seekers in Australia; it is simplistically and erroneously framed as a humanitarian or national security issue when in fact it is both.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten knows he has to craft a workable, politically palatable policy on <b>asylum</b>-seekers that bal­ances competing national security and humanitarian considerations. But this won’t happen unless the party, and the Left in particular, better understands the push-pull factors that are inducing people to leave their countries of birth for an often uncertain future in foreign lands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A critical first step is recognising that the dramatic increase in the number of people seeking <b>asylum</b> in Australia across the past decade is neither unique nor likely to diminish with time. On the contrary, the unremitting, unregulated flow of people seeking a new life in a country other than their own is a global phenomenon the scale of which is historically unprecedented. So new policy responses are urgently required.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month, the authoritative <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span> released its annual global trends report. It declared that the forcible displacement of people at the end of last year had risen to 59.5 million, the highest number recorded and the biggest leap in a single year (8.3 million).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This means that one in every 122 people is a <b>refugee</b>, internally displaced within the borders of their own country or actively seeking <b>asylum</b>. If the 59 million people were a country, it would be the world’s 24th largest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his accompanying comments, high commissioner Antonio Guterres said: “We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before.” The historical record bears this out. There have been two comparable surges of displaced people, both of them after the 20th century’s two most destructive wars. The Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires in 1917-18 caused an exodus of 20 million Europeans and Russians, leading to the establishment of the first international <b>refugee</b> regime under the aegis of the League of Nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A second major displacement of mainly Europeans, numbering between 20 million and 30 million, occurred immediately after World War II. This resulted in the creation of the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> and the foundational 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Along with the 1967 protocol, this remains the definitive international agreement governing the treatment of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, these displacements, including those stemming from smaller regional conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, were episodic, relatively short-lived and largely the result of wars between states. Today’s displacements, by contrast, are longer lasting, endemic, involve far greater numbers of people and have multiple push-pull causes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conflict is one of them. But as the fragmenting Middle East illustrates, contemporary conflicts are likelier to be within states rather than between them, although their consequences are seldom confined inside the borders of a single country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The burgeoning number of seemingly intractable conflicts globally has made it difficult to safely repatriate refugees, the preferred outcome for the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year only 126,800 refugees were able to return to their home countries, the lowest number in 31 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But conflict is only one of many push factors contributing to the upsurge in <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Unregulated population movements also are being stimulated by a dramatic rise in violence perpetrated by terrorist groups; intensifying ethnic and religious tensions; government policies; environmental decline; economic opportunism; and the involvement of criminal groups in people-smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The numbers tell the story. In 1975, there were only about 2.4 million refugees globally. But by 1995 the number of refugees and “people of concern” to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> had increased more than tenfold to 27.4 million, before more than doubling again in the following two decades.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The impact of two other linked push factors — population growth and reduced living space — makes it likely that the mass displacement of people will be with us for many years to come.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the <span class="companylink">UN</span> <b>refugee</b> convention was written in 1951, the world’s population was 2.5 billion. In the intervening 65 years, our population has nearly tripled to 7.3 billion while living space has shrunk because of demographic pressures exacerbated by environmental degradation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unlike the 19th century, when 5 per cent of all Europeans migrated to distant imperial colonies and emerging proto-states in Africa, Australasia and the Americas, there are no bountiful new worlds beckoning the victims of war, persecution and poverty. So <b>asylum</b>-seekers are forced to share already crowded space by crossing borders when conditions in their own country become fraught.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If they have a choice, then increasingly they bypass countries of first <b>asylum</b> and head for the modern equivalent of the new world — developed countries, such as Australia, that offer more attractive lifestyles and the promise of a better future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For better or worse, such ­choices are available to more and more people as the barriers to movement come down. Witness the removal of border controls in Europe, the ease of international travel, the explosion in knowledge and information associated with the internet, and the emergence of sophisticated people-smuggling networks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Employment opportunities, wage levels, generosity of welfare systems, ease of access and accessibility of <b>refugee</b> determination tribunals are other influential pull factors in determining <b>asylum</b>-seeker choices, as Labor under Kevin Rudd discovered to its cost after first denying their relevance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten’s next task is to dispel the myth that Australia’s response to the problem has been cruel and unfair, and has tarnished irrevocably our reputation internationally, including within our own region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Much has been made of the need to find a regional solution and to adhere to the Bali process, an exhortation frequently made by former Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa, in his persistent criticism of Australia’s approach to <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Yet Australia’s regime for managing and assessing <b>asylum</b>-seekers is, in most respects, no less fair or ­humane than elsewhere in the world, especially in Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Camp conditions for those awaiting <b>refugee</b> assessment or repatriation in Southeast Asia are far worse than those at Australia’s offshore processing facilities on Manus Island and Nauru. And despite Natalegawa’s claims, there is no workable regional solution. Indeed, it is the absence of one that has complicated Australia’s response and forced countries to deal with the issue on an individual, ad hoc basis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The plight of the Rohingya is ­illustrative. In April this year, thousands of Rohingya fleeing persecution in Myanmar were left stranded in the Andaman Sea for weeks when Thai authorities refused them permission to land and pushed them back to sea, as did Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Association of Southeast Asian Nations</span>, the region’s premier multilateral organisation, was impotent in dealing with the crisis and conspicuously silent on the underlying human rights dilemma posed by Yangon’s treatment of its Rohingya minority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The domestic focus on Australia’s controversial <b>boat</b> turnback policy obscures the fact many of our Asian neighbours have effectively adopted the same strategy. The hard-pressed Europeans may soon follow suit by taking more aggressive measures to disrupt people-smuggling, borrowing from Australia’s experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is also an unfortunate but seldom mentioned fact many of the kingpins of the people-smuggling trade live in Southeast Asia and are protected by the local police and military in exchange for bribes and even equity in this illicit and iniquitous trade, which is morally indistinguishable from human trafficking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far from being an outlier, Australia’s present <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy may well be the future as more and more states struggle to deal with the rising tide of dislocated people and undocumented migrant labour that has put enormous human, financial and social strains on the resources and goodwill of receiving countries, as well as exacting a toll on the <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These costs are often ignored or downplayed in Australian debates about <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy. But they are substantial and must be balanced against the rights of <b>asylum</b>-seekers in determining what is a fair and reasonable policy, not least because of the opportunity costs involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every dollar spent on the enormous industry that has grown up around <b>asylum</b>-seekers is a dollar not available to spend on foreign aid, immigration, health, education, disabilities or aged care. These costs clearly had become unsustainable by the time the Coalition returned to government, rising from $85 million in 2007-08 to nearly $3 billion by the time Labor left office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the record numbers of <b>asylum</b>-seekers and displaced people globally and Australia’s much weakened fiscal position, any softening of Labor’s position would risk a budget blowout and make a return to surplus even more problematic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The costs for our neighbours are also considerable, rising in line with surging <b>asylum</b>-seeker numbers. In the past three years, about 160,000 people have sought refuge in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, while across Asia as a whole there was a 31 per cent increase in displacements last year alone, taking the overall figure to nine million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If these trends continue, tougher measures inevitably will be taken by regional states to slow the incoming flow of people, including <b>boat</b> push-backs and tighter border control measures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As to the prospects of a regional solution, we are still a long way from this nirvana. However, even if one is found it is likely to result in large numbers of <b>asylum</b>-seekers returning to their countries of origin from the many holding or transit camps in Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was the game changer that, in 1998, brought to a conclusion the long-running Vietnamese boatpeople crisis after ASEAN issued an ultimatum to Vietnam that it must take back the remaining 40,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers still living in camps across the region as they were not bona fide refugees and therefore not entitled to resettlement in another country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A third problem for Shorten and the Labor leadership is how to address significant flaws in the <b>refugee</b> convention, an issue on which the Left has been all but silent. Designed in an earlier era for a different set of political and social circumstances, the convention is outdated and manifestly ill-equipped to deal with the irregular mass movement of people, a point many <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> officials privately concede.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It must be remembered that the convention was written primarily to manage the post-World War II resettlement of European refugees dislocated by the war, or who had been forced to flee Adolf Hitler’s ethnic pogroms and targeted persecution of so-called non-Aryans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Winston Churchill’s 1946 Iron Curtain speech, presaging the Cold War, provided a clear political subtext for the convention, enshrining the notion that the right to live without fear of persecution was universal and ought not be subject to the whims of dictators and oppressive regimes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">European governments in the 17th century had accepted the notion of refugees as entitled to the status of political exiles and the convention codified this historical understanding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the notion of exile is hardly a solution for today’s irregular migrants, many of whom, if not most, do not meet the definition of a <b>refugee</b> under the terms of the convention — that of a person who, owing to a “well-founded fear of being persecuted … is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They include 38.2 million internally displaced people within the borders of their own countries; 1.8 million <b>asylum</b>-seekers awaiting a determination of their status; and an estimated 30 million undocumented labour migrants who are working illegally in a foreign country but do not feature in <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> statistics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In response, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> has formulated a concept of “people of concern” that goes well beyond its original, narrowly defined remit, widening the scope and therefore the number of people requiring international care, support and potentially a new home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A further problem is that the <b>refugee</b> assessment process has become more complex and less rigorous because of the difficulty of obtaining reliable documents and carrying out reliable background checks in the world’s many conflict zones. Coaching by people-smugglers, who typically advise their clients to throw away their bona fide travel and identity documents, has not helped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aside from definitional creep and assessment flaws, there are equally worrying failures of proportionality and fairness. For example, the convention does not penalise signatory countries for persecuting or expelling their citizens. Nor is there a requirement for burden-sharing between states. It takes no account of the costs or impact on receiving states and priority is given to <b>asylum</b>-seekers on the basis of their mobility rather than need.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The convention’s obligations do not extend to non-signatory states such as Indonesia and Thailand, which are important transit countries in the people-smuggling trade. There is also a significant disparity between what Australia gives to support the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> and the much greater costs of running a supplementary <b>asylum</b>-seeker regime, which was never intended to be the case when the convention was first conceived.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are the complexities and hard realities confronting Shorten as he begins the necessary and long overdue process of reforming Labor’s unworkable and unpopular <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Opposition Leader argues, <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing must be integral to a policy that properly allows Australia to control its borders and regulate its immigration and <b>refugee</b> programs, as no serious government would tolerate an open-border approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When emotion clouds judgment the inevitable result is bad policy. <b>Boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing are the best guarantees that we won’t see a repeat of the deaths of hundreds of innocents at sea, which is surely a better human­itarian outcome than a resumption of the people-smuggling trade. Those who view the <b>asylum</b>-seeker issue exclusively through the lens of human rights must understand that the unregulated flow of people poses security challenges for receiving countries that should not be dismissed as an exaggeration or subordinated to the rights of <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are particularly evident in Australia’s neighbourhood where the existence of large enclaves of displaced people and undocumented labour migrants has shifted international attention from the plight of these itinerants to the consequences of their flight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Receiving states understandably worry about the harmful effects of irregular migration, especially during periods of political and economic turbulence. Cross-border movements of refugees and illegal migrants can ­impose heavy economic and financial burdens on developing countries, seriously destabilise border regions and aggravate ethnic and religious tensions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even in cosmopolitan, migrant-friendly states such as Australia, the sudden influx of significant numbers of people from completely different societies can be difficult to absorb ­without social and political perturbations — especially if they are seen as having entered Australia illegitimately, a criticism often made by migrants who have gone through a rigorous and lengthy process to qualify for citizenship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Add to that genuine concerns about <b>asylum</b>-seekers with criminal backgrounds and terrorist sympathies, and it is not hard to see why governments across the world are adopting tougher, more discriminating <b>asylum</b>-seeker regimes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Shorten needs to go further if he wants to create a forward-looking <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy fit for the times. He should explicitly acknowledge that pull factors, such as the ease of admission, welfare support and employment opportunities, are often key arbiters in determining the preferred destination of <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is already an attractive receiving country because of its prosperity and attractive lifestyle, so any policy retreat could well have a multiplier effect, exponentially increasing the number of people wishing to come here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, Shorten should take the bit between the teeth and call for reform of the <b>refugee</b> convention and the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a sobering reminder of how entrenched the <b>asylum</b>-seeker problem has become that the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> initially was given only a limited mandate and was not expected to last more than three years. But it also highlights how much the problem of <b>asylum</b>-seekers has outgrown the coping capacity of international agreements and the existing <b>refugee</b> instrumentalities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It won’t be easy to rewrite the convention or to reform the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>. But they are necessary steps on the way to creating a more efficacious regime for managing one of the world’s most pressing humanitarian and national security challenges.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alan Dupont is professor of international security at the University of NSW and a non-resident fellow at the <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute.Chris</span> kenny P24</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten shores up his <b>boat</b> deal</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten appears to have cobbled together a shaky deal with the Labor factions, which should see his controversial plan to turn back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats passed into policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While a number of Left faction delegates declared that they would vote against the proposal if a formal ballot arose, some Left hardheads were considering having their delegates abstain so as to ensure the Right-aligned Mr Shorten won.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Several senior Left figures told the Herald Sun they were furious with Mr Shorten and shadow immigration minister Richard Marles for announcing they would seek turn-backs, but did not want to destroy Mr Shorten’s leadership by causing him to lose a vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Left powerbroker and Mr Shorten’s 2013 leadership rival, Anthony Albanese, is understood to have had a blazing row with Mr Shorten on Thursday night, with Mr Albanese furious Mr Shorten had “verballed’’ him by indicating he would vote to support turn-backs. He would not comment yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten and Mr Marles will today detail a range of humanitarian measures contained in the immigration policy, to attempt to ease concerns within the party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These include $450 million for the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span>, doubling the humanitarian intake to 27,000 by 2025, reinstating the <b>Refugee</b> Review Tribunal, prioritising getting children out of detention and providing independent oversight of offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Left last night tabled a number of proposed amendments, including one to specifically ban turn-backs from Labor policy, and others which left open the possibility of closing the offshore processing centre on Manus Island and Nauru. A wide-ranging amendment from Labor for Refugees lodged last night did not contain a specific ban on turn-backs as the group believes the existing platform already prohibits them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The final decision on whether to formally oppose turn-backs will be made at 8am today. The debate dominated the three-day Labor national conference, which started in Melbourne yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles was heckled at a forum on the sidelines of the conference organised by the Welcome to Australia group. He told the forum he did not believe the 2000 <b>asylum</b> seekers detained on Manus Island and Nauru could come to Australia because if they did “there would be boats on the water tomorrow’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Votes on the floor are so tight — 196 on the Left, 197 on the Right, and four unaligned — that factional Whips would not allow their people to leave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ellen.whinnett@news.com.au LAURIE OAKES, PAGE 52</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Dennis Shanahan Political editor   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In trying to appease both Left and Right, Bill Shorten can only weaken his party</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The jig is up for Bill Shorten and Labor. The days of papering over what is happening within the federal party to appease an ascendant Left and suppress the pragmatic Right’s attempts to shift the ALP back to responsible policy positions are finished.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader’s shock collision with reality at the ALP national conference this week in Melbourne has shaken Labor’s complacency, which has rested on Tony Abbott’s unpopularity, and demonstrated the need for policy development beyond base union demands and the warm inner glow of assumed moral superiority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For too long Labor has avoided hard decisions on its over-reliance on a narrow union base, its internal organisation and transparency, the reality of long-term budgetary challenges, the need for real reform, a continuation of policies rejected soundly at the 2013 election and an almost self-defeating refusal to criticise the leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is locked into a battle over free trade with China, committed to an ambitious renewable energy target and a carbon price, totally opposed to any GST change, convinced pension and health funding is sustainable, and that the National Disability Insurance Scheme is fully funded, and aims for a $2.7 billion doubling of the <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In response to these challenges, Shorten’s opening address to the ALP conference was well delivered, passionate and full of promise, but the outcome of the conference and the ensuing policy settlement by the shadow cabinet needs to put Labor on a realistic and responsible path. The NSW right wing, once again the biggest single faction in the ALP, although evolving and adopting less traditional positions, must, through its co-operative duumvirate of Chris Bowen and Tony Burke, assisted by Joel Fitzgibbon, assert itself and drag Shorten’s Labor back to the centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If, as Shorten said yesterday, “the future requires us to lead”, then Labor is going to have to reassess its position in the national interest and its own electoral prospects if it truly expects to replace the Abbott government in just one term.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The challenges Labor faces are numerous and complex and require more than a stirring speech concentrating on Labor values, traditional strengths such as education and health, some tried and true themes such as a republic and same-sex marriage, a fourth carbon price election and another round of concentrating on a “grotesque” Abbott government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has failed to examine itself critically since the 2013 defeat. It has existed on antipathy to Abbott and shifts to the Left to try to reclaim votes lost to the Greens and to keep close ties with the unions. It is only 18 months from an election and it thinks it can win with a leader who has defined what he stands for with a swath of damaging and risky policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is somewhat ironic that a centrepiece of the conference in Melbourne and one of the most warmly received moments in Shorten’s speech was a tribute to Gough Whitlam. Whitlam’s leadership and the aftermath are a template for a modern and successful Labor Party. Shorten should look to this and encourage its application.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was Whitlam who swept the Coalition away after decades of government with a leadership platform in opposition and government that included taking on the true faceless men of the Labor factions that controlled the federal parliamentary party and wedded it to the unions. Whitlam stood against hard-left factional bosses, he swept away tariffs in the name of free trade, opened Australia’s relations with China, truly changed access to higher education and universal healthcare and launched social change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the reaction to the excesses and failures of the Whitlam years, pioneered in NSW by another departed leader — Neville Wran, to whom Shorten gave due recognition yesterday — was the other template Labor needs to use now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Within months of the devastating defeat of the Whitlam government, Wran was elected premier and went on to lead one of Labor’s most successful governments. Wran managed to implement social change, in some cases a world first, as well as managing an economy without alienating public support and winning election after election. Wran relied on the NSW Right for support but worked closely with his pragmatic left-wing deputy, Jack Ferguson, to ensure sensible economic measures were taken and that social change did not get too far ahead of popular acceptance. Wran’s experience was a keystone for the Hawke-Keating years, which were Labor’s most successful since World War II, driven by the pragmatic and centrist policies of the NSW right wing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor under Shorten appears unable to develop genuine, wide-ranging policy that accommodates the Left’s social concerns and the necessary pragmatism for a successful centrist party. Like so many other left-of-centre parties around the world that have suffered defeat, the ALP seems intent on moving to the left to gain lost ground rather than contest the more difficult but lucrative middle ground. British Labour appears to be moving further left after its defeat, to the despair of the Blairites who modernised Labour, cut the binding ties with the unions and sensibly managed an economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the obvious disadvantages of being controlled by a union movement that is no longer representative of the wider population or even the workforce, Shorten is committing further to the unions that provide so much financial support and electioneering help for the ALP. At the same time his leadership is beholden to the Left in the parliamentary party and his default policy position has been to adopt the soft option on economic reforms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The headline clash ahead of the conference concerned Shorten’s final recognition that he had to take on the Left over border protection and at least allow for turning back boats to Indonesia. But the sudden commitment to an ambi­tious and uncosted renewable energy target for 50 per cent power generation by 2030 has angered the Right and exposed the Opposition Leader’s factional tug of war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anthony Albanese, Shorten’s left-wing rival for the leadership who outpolled him among the Labor rank and file and who is a more pragmatic politician than many on the Left, was forced into a furious denunciation of the way the capitulation to Abbott’s turn-back policy was handled, coming as it did after years of trenchant opposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After gagging Richard Marles, Labor’s immigration spokesman, on turn-backs months ago, Shorten ambushed Albanese with an ultimatum for support that would effectively destroy Shorten’s leadership if it is opposed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although Kevin Rudd promised to turn back boats before the 2007 election, Labor dumped the idea when there was a lull in <b>boat</b> arrivals after the Howard government and, as Albanese said yesterday, mistook the strength of “pull factors” as the Left campaigned to pull apart the necessary measures to stop people-smuggling and compete with the Greens. It was only in the dying days of the Rudd government that the Labor Right was able to implement measures that Labor — Right and Left — now concedes saved lives. Simultaneously, Shorten endorsed Labor’s new president and his environment spokesman, Mark Butler, in proposing a radical renewable energy target designed to draw attention away from the emissions trading scheme — “not a carbon tax”, as Shorten said yesterday — without detail or recognition that such a RET threatened a greater impost than the carbon tax or an ETS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While some Labor frontbenchers are trying to say the scheme is not mandatory and to latch on to the word “ambition”, Shorten’s tirade against a “grotesque” and “flat earth” Abbott government over climate change as the basis for an election campaign serves only to reinforce the view this is a radical and definitive Labor initiative.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Whitlam’s “iconic” support for China and free trade, Shorten has backed an extreme union campaign against the China FTA, despite having personally welcomed the deal with President Xi Jinping and talked about the jobs and growth it would create.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While there are genuine concerns about the labour aspects of the agreement, the union campaign has harked back to the xenophobic campaigns against 457 temporary work visas, and the ACTU has actually called for Labor to oppose the implementation of the agreement if the unions are not satisfied.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As one Labor MP told Inquirer: “Of course we have to address real concerns about labour, but at the end of the day we have to be a free trade party and support the Chinese FTA.” Yet unionists protested outside the ALP conference as television ads ran accusing Abbott of selling out Australian workers to Chinese labour, and Shorten refuses to qualify his support for the campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Redolent of the days when Mark Latham as leader was suspicious of the US free trade agreement, the sensible centrists of the ALP will have to work their leader into a balanced and sustainable position on free trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On tax reform, Shorten reiterated his opposition to GST changes and insisted Labor’s proposals on superannuation and multinational corporate tax were enough to address revenue shortfalls, even though Labor premiers conceded with the Prime Minister that health funding couldn’t be met without drastic change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">South Australian Labor Premier Jay Weatherill blasted Shorten’s position when he declared he couldn’t afford to oppose suggestions on tax reform because he knew what was required.The cold reality of a tug of war weakening, not strengthening, Shorten and Labor was exposed at this Labor conference.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By James Massola   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>416 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A006</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Plenty still rocking the <b>boat</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By James Massola</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration spokesman Richard Marles has confronted party critics over <b>boat</b> turn-backs, warning a future Labor government would be "condemned by history" and "consumed" if <b>asylum</b> seeker boats restart between Indonesia and Australia. The ALP endured another day of fractious debate over the contentious turn-backs issue, which saw Mr Marles booed during Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's major speech. Labor Right power brokers were quietly confident they would be able to protect Mr Shorten from a defeat by the Left on the floor of the Labor Party conference over the issue, which would potentially imperil his leadership. The Left, which largely opposes turning back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats, was due to decide on Saturday morning whether it would try to move a motion that would forbid <b>boat</b> turn-backs in government. In an at times heated debate with Tasmanian Labor Senator Lisa Singh and Queensland Senate candidate Murray Watt - both of whom oppose <b>boat</b> turn-backs - Mr Marles warned Labor had to make difficult decisions on the road back to government. "Were we to go down a path of reopening that journey [from Indonesia to Australia] again you can forget about a future Labor government being remembered for anything else," he said. "We will be condemned by history. We would be consumed by that journey again, as we were when we were last in office." Mr Marles was booed and heckled by the audience during the debate and faced heated questions, including about the treatment of women and children on Nauru from the <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource Centre's Pamela Curr.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier, Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese said he wanted to see Labor policy that "ensures that we remain tough on people smugglers, but that we have humanitarian outcomes". And fellow Left faction member Penny Wong would only say she had made her views on turn-backs clear in the shadow cabinet, that there were people of good conscience on both sides of the debate, and that "no one wants to see more people die at sea". But Mr Shorten and Mr Marles' position on tow-backs appeared to win some unexpected support with the leadership of the Left-wing Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union not expected to oppose the Right over the issue. The CFMEU's support is regarded as crucial to Mr Shorten having enough numbers for his Right-wing faction to win the day. with Ben Schneiders</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE LED BY 'WHITE BLOKES', SAYS <span class="companylink">UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA</span>'S CARMEL MCGREGOR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reminds me of Michelle Grattan's quip (Michelle Grattan is now at the <span class="companylink">University of Canberra</span>) when an older Warren Truss replaced Mark Vaile as leader of the National Party: Only in the NP is the appointment of someone older referred to as generational change. Old, white, Anglo-Saxon blokes is what this government prefers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MJM, July 23</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An amazing sexist, ageist, racist rant. What if these 3 blokes happen to be the best for the job? If not, that would be the place to comment, not with this offensive rave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John, July 23</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ABC TO CLOSE ITS SHOPS ACROSS AUSTRALIA</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sorry i don't agree with that, it is a retail operation and the job transition are much more viable then news and media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gerson, July 23</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seriously John! Give it a rest. I stopped frequenting ABC stores years ago - they were always expensive, had a limited range of what I was after in terms of viewing and music taste, and I could get all I needed directly off the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">net, home delivered and cheaper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rboys, July 23</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John - some of us aren't big fans of ABC reporting, but in this case they may have a point: "It is no longer possible for the ABC to sustain a large network of leased stores, traditionally reliant on DVD and CD formats". Do you think this could be about market factors rather than politics ?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hacka, July 23</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is another example of technological change driving major changes in business models even in Government backed businesses. It's not always a pleasant experience but it's not going to stop.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nicole, July 23</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WARNING VOTERS WILL ABANDON LABOR OVER <b>BOAT</b> TURN-BACKS AS LEFT THROWN <b>REFUGEE</b> SWEETENER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Bill Shorten wonders why he isn't popular with Labor supporters. Appalling. Polls before policy will kill this country. Angry Of Kenthurst, July 23</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten should resign immediately. Shorten has lost the confidence of the ALP and all of Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">enough is enough, July 23</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Chattering class should try listening</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Latham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>979 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 July 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>53</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Relativities</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thirty years ago in Australian politics a fascinating new phenomenon emerged: the rise of the chattering classes.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead of supporting tangible ways of improving living standards and service delivery, a cohort of inner-city activists became obsessed with symbolism. They were more interested in how abstract notions were being debated among the political class than the real-life impact of government decisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the decades since, the chatter has grown louder, to the point where issues such as gay marriage, <b>asylum</b> seekers, the republic and Indigenous constitutional recognition dominate the agenda of a majority of MPs and media outlets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Often on radio I'm asked about these controversies. My stock response is to say I could wander for months around the shopping centres of south-west Sydney and not find anyone passionately committed to extra boatpeople arrivals or changing the Australian Constitution or Marriage Act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For suburban voters, these are non-issues, especially when compared to the importance of economic and education policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Naturally, this weekend's ALP national conference in Melbourne is being dominated by the abstract arguments of the Left faction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a long while since the party's so-called progressive wing reflected the commonsense views of suburbia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the urban fringe, people learn by doing - by finding out what succeeds and what fails in practice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Leftists, opinions are developed around well-intentioned theories, delivered in the form of dogma and sloganeering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if the theories fail or have little impact in practice, progressives cling to them as an article of faith - proof that they've discovered the essence of social justice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hence the campaign for "Marriage Equality": a symbolic reform that does nothing to enhance anyone's capacity to function successfully in society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Likewise, tinkering with constitutional amendments under the banner of "Recognition" or "The Republic" can never improve anyone's lifestyle or living standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the many incongruous symbols and slogans of the ALP Left, nothing beats "Labor For Refugees" - the lobby group established after the 2001 Tampa incident, advocating open-door <b>asylum</b> seeker policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I remember a verbal slanging match in late 2001 with one of the rising stars of the parliamentary Left, Anthony Albanese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Albo was a devotee of Labor For Refugees, arguing that, in terms of fairness and compassion, the ALP should embrace open-door strategies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I told him he was deluding himself - that encouraging people smugglers could only end in disaster - he accused me of mimicking the racist views of my Western Sydney electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ultimately, Albanese had his way, as did Labor For Refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the policies of the Rudd and Gillard governments, 2000 <b>asylum</b> seekers drowned at sea - the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in Australian history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Exposing <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesian people traffickers leaves them vulnerable to long journeys on unsafe vessels. Drownings are inevitable, the horror of women and children, whole families, perishing in the cruellest circumstances imaginable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having presided over this human carnage, one would have expected Labor For Refugees to have immediately disbanded itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, it has maintained its self-belief, morphing into a dangerous form of self-deception.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has fulfilled the classic definition of fanaticism: when all is lost, when every piece of available evidence points to tragedy and defeat, it has redoubled its efforts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the national conference, Labor For Refugees wants to outlaw <b>boat</b> turn-backs and return to onshore processing. It believes in the right of "all <b>asylum</b> seekers to have their status as refugees assessed on Australian soil [while] accommodated in government-run, urban-based reception centres".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How do these Leftists and their Green allies sleep at night, advocating policies that are certain to kill many of the people they claim to support?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How can they mouth words like "fairness" and "compassion" when, on their watch, infant children are going to drown?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is where abstract policy-making can be lethal: repeating the mistakes of the immediate past that have resulted in thousands of fatalities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border protection has become Australia's longest-standing policy debate. But it's more than that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a new form of political sickness: the callous insanity of Green/Left self-delusion. For the sake of a dogmatic attachment to their chosen policy, they appear willing to watch people die.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Importantly, this disease is not restricted to Leftist elites. The futility of symbolism is also evident in the work of the Abbott government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister faces a classic Catch-22 in his attempt to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If he pursues radical reform (such as Noel Pearson's plan for a new fourth arm of government, racially restricted to Aborigines) it is certain to be defeated at a referendum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But if the changes are purely symbolic (such as flowery prose in a constitutional preamble) they won't be worth the political effort involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government needs to address a bigger truth about the situation of our first Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One could write dozens of pages of Indigenous recognition into the constitution and still, across the country this evening, scores of Aboriginal women will be bashed and humiliated by Aboriginal men and scores of Aboriginal children will be subject to sexual abuse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here's something statistical to recognise: Aboriginal women are 35 times more likely to be hospitalised by acts of domestic violence than the rest of Australia's adult female population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those most in danger in Indigenous communities don't require new words on yellowing sheets of paper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They need a squadron of cyborg Terminators to protect them from the human scum setting upon them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In these horrendous crimes against each other, perversely enough in modern Australia, the main oppression of Aboriginal people comes from other Aboriginal people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recognise this reality and policy solutions for our most disadvantaged citizens might be possible, beyond the feel-good emptiness of papered symbolism.W</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Soul search</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader's credibility is on the line as the party struggles to dig itself out of a hole, writes Laura Tingle.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ladies and gentlemen, comrades: introducing Bill Shorten. In case you the voters, nay, you the Labor Party delegates, don't actually know who he is, the ALP introduced its federal leader at its national conference on Friday with the usual build up of introductory speakers and video packaging showing Bill, friend of the worker, family man, etc, etc.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, this happens at every modern political rally. But there is a particular problem with Bill Shorten. Voters either have no idea who he is or what he stands for, or don't believe he stands for anything at all. Cartoonists have long played with his soft impact on voters' views, with First Dog on the Moon making a specialty of never quite landing his name.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alternatively, voters have formed a very negative view based on his role as a key figure in the toppling of two Labor prime ministers, and fuelled in recent weeks by the royal commission into trade unions. Commissioner Dyson Heydon observed that he might be seen as an "evasive" witness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Julia Gillard famously and disastrously declared in the 2010 election campaign that voters would see "the real Julia", and told the 2011 ALP Conference that "we are us". But at least voters had had a chance to form some view of her when she was the party's deputy leader. For better or worse, voters thought they had a handle on Kevin - and Mark and Kim and Simon. But not Bill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's why there is double angst involved in this weekend's national conference for Australia's oldest political party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under real threat on the left from the Greens, and having had more than a generation of its rising parliamentary talent wiped out by the debacle between 2010 and 2013, it is meeting in Melbourne trying to find its soul, as well as its leader, in the rubble of the last decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as Gillard always seemed most comfortable talking about education, Shorten seems most comfortable in his persona as the friend of the worker in trying to explain what drives him and his political beliefs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His role as the face of the Beaconsfield mine disaster featured a lot in the conference videos, in the photos and in the rhetoric.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I will never forget when I heard they had found Larry Knight's body," Shorten said in his opening address. "How the experts wanted to halt the search so the coroner could have a protected site. And how I heard the hard-rock miners say, with steel in their voice: 'This isn't a recovery - this is a rescue. Until we know different, there are men down there who are still alive."'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is, of course, what Labor wants to believe about its own fortunes: that it is a real prospect to do the unthinkable and wipe Tony Abbott and his government out of office after just one term.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It clings for comfort to the knowledge of its poll lead on a two-party preferred basis, even as it slinks out of sight behind the Coalition on national security issues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet it went into this conference with the leaden weight of Shorten's collapsing standing with voters making the prospect of pulling off a victory after just one parliamentary term seem fanciful, whatever the Prime Minister's own strained relationship with voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as there were repeated mentions of Beaconsfield for Shorten, the party faithful were repeatedly reminded that Queensland and Victoria showed that the impossible could happen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what do the power plays and the contentious issues on the agenda at the conference actually tell us about the party that would form government if it actually was successful at the next election?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is hard to escape the conclusion that the issues that will frame this conference in history deal with the past more than the future, and are more focused on electoral prospects than party philosophy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The question of what happens to the party's <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy is the most conspicuous example of this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Risking the ire of the Left, the message Shorten wants to get out there via all the talk about <b>boat</b> turnbacks is that Labor is also tough on <b>asylum</b> seekers. The Opposition Leader tried to make a virtue of being frank about the fact Labor's policy in government had not worked, a frankness that showed how he wants to give Shorten-led Labor some space to differentiate itself from Rudd and Gillard Labor on this issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As immigration spokesman Richard Marles told a rowdy forum at the conference on Friday, if Labor doesn't shift policy, it would be consumed by it. More <b>asylum</b> seekers will die, he said, and Labor would be "condemned by history".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor can only try to reframe the debate if it makes it difficult for the Coalition to continue to remind voters of the Labor record on <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not that it is likely to work. The Coalition's bloody political response to Labor's capitulation on <b>boat</b> turnbacks was not to welcome the change but to continue with the attack, questioning whether the Opposition was really serious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But having dealt with the totemistic issue of <b>boat</b> turnbacks, Labor is hoping it has given itself room for some product differentiation on issues that do cause disquiet, not just in its own base and parts of the broader community but also those voters that it risks losing to the Greens on this issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are the uncomfortable questions about the growing secrecy of our border operations, the creeping militarisation of security with the new Border Force, and the unresolved but largely undiscussed issues of a regional solution to refugees. Just what is happening to <b>asylum</b> seekers now stranded on Manus Island with little prospect of resettlement in Papua New Guinea, and to the whole unreality of the "Cambodian" solution?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After all, Labor is attempting to align itself with the Coalition's policy on <b>boat</b> turnbacks despite no one knowing how the policy is being conducted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, Shorten's tactics on climate change are trying to make a virtue of comparison with past debacles. Let's face it, the international climate change debate has moved beyond the 2010 divide of having an emissions trading system or not having an emissions trading system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The United States and China have moved to regulatory models. The surge in the global renewable energy industry, the speed of its technological innovation and its collapsing prices have also changed the discussion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But having lost two leaders and so much moral authority by dumping an ETS, Shorten's Labor feels it has little choice but to try to make a virtue of sticking with one. At a retail electoral level, it knows it will take a thrashing on this from the government charging that it has revived a carbon price. The policy reality, however, is likely to be a much less ambitious, much more industry-specific scheme than the behemoth that was proposed six years ago. The politics, it is hoped, are that the leader who is not seen to stand for anything, and who has been prepared to assassinate two leaders, will be seen to stand for a core Labor belief.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten in reality didn't have much choice in confronting these issues at this conference. And despite the howls of outrage in recent days, the likelihood of a change in policy on <b>boat</b> turnbacks and on renewable energy have been telegraphed for months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The underlying message of both the <b>asylum</b> seeker and climate change issues, therefore, is that neither represent an indication of any fundamental shift to the Right or the Left by the Labor Party, despite all the talk about changing factional numbers on the floor of the conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a party struggling to dig itself out of a hole any way it can, while trying to keep some modicum of philosophical respectability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There have been some wins for the Left: a "Buffett tax" to ensure high-income earners pay a minimum of 35 per cent tax and some wins for the unions: a pledge to review the China free trade agreement's labour provisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten asserted, without great conviction, that Labor "understands fiscal responsibility". "We are prepared to make hard choices and back fair savings," he said, though without really outlining anything to back an assertion that most voters do not share, while asserting federal Labor would not raise the GST.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The one place Bill Shorten did not go on Friday was national security, a concession to the grip the Coalition holds on this issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's credibility within the party he leads will ultimately depend on how he performs in the detailed debates on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, climate change and party rule changes over the weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has nothing to lose and a considerable amount to gain. Labor will be looking for some reassurance that all the brave talk about returning from the wilderness of opposition after just one term is not just a wild fantasy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finely balanced</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who gets to vote at the Labor Party national conference</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Left 196</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Right 197</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unaligned 4</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Total voting delegates 397</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">99 Votes are needed to change policy or rules</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LEFT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Key affiliated unions</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ <span class="companylink">Australian Manufacturing Workers Union</span></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ <span class="companylink">United Voice</span></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Community & Public Sector Union</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RIGHT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Key affiliated unions</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ <span class="companylink">Australian Workers Union</span></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Transport Workers Union</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ <span class="companylink">National Union of Workers</span></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">... In addition, there are 4 federal parliamentary Labor Party leaders ...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tanya Plibersek</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stephen Conroy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Penny Wong</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">... 6 delegates elected by the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party ...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Andrew Giles</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joanne Ryan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shayne Neumann</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Burke</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Claire Moore</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anthony Albanese</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">... 3 delegates elected by Australian Young Labor ...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">... 2 vice presidents, Jane Garrett and Tim Hammond are included in the state delegation numbers. National president Mark Butler does not vote.</p>
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